Nature Underfoot

Entomologist and former pesticide developer John Hainze takes a close look at all the unwanted weeds and animal pests right under our feet. He looks at the humans' troubled history with bees, ants, hover flies, millipedes, centipedes, bedbugs, fruit flies, silverfish, dandelions, crabgrass, pillbugs, mosquitoes, cockroaches, bacteria, and more. And he shares ways these lifeforms benefit the world, leaving the reader thinking about whether humans are really exceptionally important in the big scheme of things and if humans can coexist with other forms of life and other interesting questions.