Mothdust

Night Pollinators, Navigators, and the Secret Life of the Dark

von Andi Saunders

104 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

You've been misreading the moth at your window its whole life.The last bee leaves at dusk, and most of us head inside. The garden becomes a dark shape seen from a lit room, a pleasant, finished thing. But what we leave behind is not stillness. Switch off the torch and the dark isn't empty. It's a structured, working place, occupied in shifts by creatures perfectly built to read it, and we have spent our whole history lighting it up and calling that an improvement.Mothdust is a short, beautiful book about those creatures, and about how badly we've misjudged them.

A note on editions. This is the fully illustrated keepsake edition, with 18 full-colour plates printed throughout - made to be given, kept, and returned to. Prefer the writing on its own in a lighter, lower-cost paperback or ebook? It's also available as the text edition, The World According to Moths.We built our entire picture of the moth out of its worst few minutes: circling a porch light, flattened against a pane, dead in a lampshade. Every one of those is a moth at the ragged edge of a system it was never made for. This book is about the other ninety-nine per cent of its life, the moth in its element, doing work you sleep straight through.Inside, you'll meet the moth as few people ever do: As a navigator that holds its course by the brightest part of the sky, and whose famous helplessness at a lamp turns out to be not love of the flame but a navigation system that has lost which way is up.As a pollinator working a shift no one credits, carrying pollen between flowers long after the last bee has gone home, a second crew tending the same blooms in the dark.As the quiet engine of the food web outside your window, since nearly every caterpillar a songbird carries to its chicks is a moth larva.As a body built for a world you can't perceive: an eye that pools starlight, antennae that read a single female's scent from kilometres off, ears that hear a bat coming before the sound becomes a consequence.And as something stranger still, the moth that remembers being a caterpillar, and the one that survives frozen solid for most of its long life.From a porch light to the Australian Alps, from a moth's memory to a five-thousand-year-old thread of silk, Mothdust is a book about learning to see in the dark, and about how much we miss when we mistake what we can perceive for what is real.Part of Field Notes for the Curious, short, beautiful books that turn familiar corners of nature into new ways of seeing. If Songcraft changed the sound outside your window, Mothdust will change the dark.You'll never look at the garden at night the same way again.

• ISBN: 9798192416426
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 13.08.2026
• Größe: 229 x 152 mm
• Verlag: Amazon Digital Services LLC - Kdp