Summer. Secrets of survival of plants and animals in the season of abundance

How do cicadas survive at temperatures up to +46 ° C? Do Hummingbirds know, starting to go through the waters of the Gulf of Mexico that they have to spend in flight without landing for about 17 hours? Why do the branches of some trees cease to lengthen by mid -June, although there are almost three months of summer ahead, but the vines and shoots on stumps continue to grow intensively? The famous American naturalist Bernd Heinrich describes the complex mechanisms of the interaction of animals and plants with the environment and various strategies for their behavior in the summer. In the focus of the author’s attention-frogs, woodpeckers and corpoels, wasps, butterflies of pigeons and butterflies-tezropia, rogue beetles, double-winged insects, ants and other representatives of the animal kingdom, as well as plants, mosses and lichens. Perfectly illustrated by the author’s drawings and filled with inexhaustible love for nature, the book illuminates the features of animal and plant behavior in the conditions of summer, in some of its aspects no less complex than the conditions of winter