Endless Forms review: Let’s hear it for wasps, says a lively new book

An exuberant and authoritative e-book places wasps of their rightful place – on the centre of analysis, says Simon Ings

By Simon Ings

“It’s nearly unimaginable to stroll right into a bookshop nowadays and never stumble upon a lovely e-book about bees,” Seirian Sumner grumbles in her full of life and intermittently stomach-churning new e-book, Countless Types. The London-based behavioural ecologist has reached “peak bee”. What are bees, anyway, she writes, however wasps which have forgotten learn how to hunt? The “unique bee” was a solitary wasp that turned vegetarian, simply because the “first ant” …