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This collection of essays, containing some new material, comes from a long-running humor column in the American Entomologist written by Berenbaum (entomology, Univ. of Illinois; Bugs in the System; Herbivores.) The author has become a keen observer of how insects, those who study them, and the rest of the world all interact in the arena of popular culture. Though the writing is cleverDthere's at least one chuckle per essayDthe material is not enough for an entire book, so Berenbaum is forced to reword and repeat herself. The repetition becomes annoying, though perhaps it would be less apparent if the reader were to dip into the collection, rather like a bee going from flower to flower. Part rumination on the depiction of insects and entomologists in TV, movies, and music and part autobiography, Berenbaum's fluffy essay collection is a marginal purchase for most libraries.DAnn Forister, Roseville P.L., CA Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.

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"A brilliant book on insects by one of the foremost (and funniest!) entomologists of our time. Informative, insightful, and lighthearted. -- Tom Eisner, Professor of Biology, Cornell University"An entertaining look at the wonderful world of insects. Readers will delight in Berenbaum's sense of humor when addressing six-legged friends. -- Sharron Quisenberry, President, Entomological Society of America"Arguably the most relentlessly creative insect advocate in the worldÂ…" -- The New York Times"Berenbaum a renowned entomologist, successfully lured me into a world which was all at once creepy, humorous and extremely interesting." -- Suite101.com, December 2001"Berenbaum once again bridges that gap between readers and the natural world. A must read for anyone interested in the world around them." -- Nathan Erwin, Manager of the Smithsonian Institution's Insect Zoo"If there is a funnier book written by an entomologist, then I, personally, am not aware of it!" -- Dave Barry"No one in recent years has written on insects with more learning, passion, and disarming humor than May Berenbaum. -- E.O. Wilson, Harvard University"The 'buzz' on the street is that serious science and humor are not mutually exclusive! This collection is like a formal version of 'The Far Side!'" -- Brent Karner, Insect Zoo Coordinator, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County"Who would have thought insects could be so entertaining?...a definite must-read for fans of user-friendly popular science. -- Booklist, August 2000Best Sci-Tech Books of 2000 -- Library Journal

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Product details

Paperback: 318 pages

Publisher: Joseph Henry Press; First edition. edition (August 1, 2000)

Language: English

ISBN-10: 0309068355

ISBN-13: 978-0309068352

Product Dimensions:

5.5 x 1 x 8.2 inches

Shipping Weight: 15.8 ounces

Average Customer Review:

3.5 out of 5 stars

8 customer reviews

Amazon Best Sellers Rank:

#1,015,818 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

Author May R. Berenbaum is head of the Entomology Dept. at U of Illinois and is a distinguished insect researcher and humorist. She has somewhat of a cartoonist Gary Larson ("The Far Side") sense of humor and this book is a compilation of her short articles that appeared in the "American Entomologist" from 1991 to 1999.With such article headings as: "On elderly ants", "Fatal attractions", "Roach clips and other short subjects", "Infield flies and other sporting types", "Subpoenas envy", etc., one will find a hilarious, pun-filled book full of laughs. No wonder then that such a distinguished scientist as sociobiologist E. O. Wilson ("Diversity of Life", et al.) gave this nod to Berenbaum's book: "No one in recent years has written on insects with more learning, passion, and disarming humor than May Berenbaum. She is a great friend of the Hexapoda and therefore, ultimately, us"- from the back cover. Indeed!

May Berenbaum is a goddess.

I bought the book according to Ms. Berenbaum reputation, so the disappointment was even greater. Sure there are a lot of interesting facts but they are drowned in the middle of so much blablabla that you forget them as your frustation level increases. It looks like the author was paid by the word.... The illustrations are also a real deterrent...conclusion: I was not even able to finish the book

It is clear from the prologue of May Berenbaum's Buzzwords that readers of the book are in for a good time. The author's breezy, conversational description of the bug-related essays to follow--most of them written in the 1990s and reprinted, with minor revisions, from the author's column in American Entomologist--culminates in her apologia for including in her otherwise user-friendly prose the scientific names of the critters under discussion:"But before you proceed, here's a word of warning. In these essays, you'll encounter scientific names. For reasons I'm not entirely clear on, these seem to alarm people, even some biologists, unnecessarily. These names, which are written in Latin and consist of two parts, the genus followed by the species, are used not to impress people with dazzling displays of arcane knowledge; I don't know that I've ever won anyone's heart or stopped a fight or brought the world one step closer to peace and tranquility by reeling off a scientific name at a critical juncture. They're used simply because they're really very useful."And we readers are hooked. There follow 42 brief, amusingly-titled essays divided into four broad categories: how entomologists see insects, how the world sees insects, how entomologists see themselves, and how an entomologist sees science.While written initially for the amusement of entomologists, Berenbaum's essays are accessible to the general public, both those who are enamored of, or at least tolerant of, the beasties with whom she works and those more squeamish readers who believe that in a perfect world all bugs would perish from the face of the earth. (Not that I'm choosing sides here.) Moreover, though readers who are not scientifically inclined will occasionally encounter passages in Berenbaum's essays that are beyond their ken, this should by no means dissuade them from reading the book: there is much here that can be appreciated by the ignorant layman.Berenbaum's subject matter, if always bug-related, is otherwise varied. In a delightful discussion of flatulence ("Putting on airs"), for example, both human and insect, we learn that termites may be responsible for a scandalous proportion of the earth's atmospheric methane levels. In the same essay Ms. Berenbaum further informs us that the manifold varieties of human flatulence are codified in the apparently otherwise stolid, doorstop-sized Merck Manual of Diagnosis and Therapy (which reports, we are told, that the "open sphincter" type is "said to be of higher temperature and more aromatic").In "Ain't no bugs in me!" we read of the alarming tendency of insects to find their way into various of the human body's orifices. There is the case of the appearance of maggots in a Japanese girl's urogenital tract as well as the infestation of a London man's nasal cavities with the sheep nasal bot fly--an occurrence which is not, we are told, "all that uncommon in shepherds and in other people who for whatever reason choose to spend a lot of time around sheep," but which is apparently unusual indeed among sheepless Englishmen.Berenbaum discusses sexual cannibalism among praying mantids in her essay "A prayer before dining": decapitating the mantid male prior to intercourse, she reports, removes his inhibitions. And in "Entomological legwork" the author describes the disturbing circumstances under which she reached "the profound realization that cockroaches are just not like us."But it was with particular interest that I read Berenbaum's essay "Kids Pour Coffee on Fat Girl Scouts," wherein she writes about the various mnemonic devices she's come across in her academic career--those for remembering the 12 spinal nerves ("On Old Olympus' Towering Tops / A Finn and German Viewed Some Hops") and the 10 classes of stars, for example ("Oh, Be A Fine Girl, Kiss Me Right Now, Sweetheart"). The teaching assistants of her undergraduate geology class, she remembers, taught an alternate version of the mnemonic usually used for rendering the Moh scale of hardness in minerals. It's traditionally rendered as "Texas Girls Can Flirt And Other Queer Types Can Do," but, Berenbaum writes, "according to the version the teaching assistants taught us, the Texas girls were considerably friendlier and had moved well beyond flirting."Berenbaum is a very good and a very funny writer. she may not make readers who are hostile to the insect community any more forgiving of those hordes of roaches and carpenter ants and tsetse flies awaiting their chance to wrest from humanity the mantle of world dominance...but she sure makes it fun to read about them.......But before I go I should say one more thing, by way of full disclosure: while I have never met or communicated with Ms. Berenbaum, and while she certainly can have no idea who I am, we do enjoy a relationship of sorts. You know those foul-mouthed teaching assistants who, to extract their cheap pleasures from the business of education, corrupted a perfectly serviceable device for remembering the Moh scale of hardness? Well, I'm ashamed to report that I'm married to one of them.Reviewed by Debra Hamel, author of Trying Neaira: The True Story of a Courtesan's Scandalous Life in Ancient Greece

With Buzzwords, May Berenbaum presents a collection of essays, many previously published, that show the lighter-and usually humorous side-of entomology. Berenbaum divides her book into four sections: how entomologists see insects, how the world sees insects, how entomologists see themselves and how an entomologist sees science. Topics include insect flatulence, the misrepresentation of insects in comic books, the stereotypical role of entomologists in movies, aged ants, the smoking of insects, naming insects and, as the name suggest, insect sex life. None of this, of course, would ever have been considered a humorous topic to me prior to this book. A few pages into it, however, and I was reading aloud the amazing, bizarre and comical facts about insects and entomologists. I must add, though, that the final section was not nearly as interesting and it took me a lot longer to read it than I did the others; the first two sections were especially droll and I flew through those hundred pages with amazing speed.Of course, this being a collection of humorous essays, each one had to end with a punch line, a pun or a joke. At times they seemed forced and this tended to lessen my enjoyment of the essay somewhat. Another detraction was the occasional incorrect punctuation. There was a tendency for quotation marks and parenthesis to start and never close, causing me to skim frantically down the page to see just when the thought would end. Despite these objections, Buzzwords was an pleasant-and eye-opening-read, fully deserving of four out of five stars.

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