A field guide to insects in Australia
Zborowski, Paul2017
Book
"Whether you are an amateur insect enthusiast, a student or an Entomologist, this completely revised new edition ... will help you to identify insects from all the major groups ... More than 600 colour photos show the insects in their natural habitats, while more than 50 line drawings clearly illustrate the differences where identification is tricky."--Back cover.
Main title:
A field guide to insects in Australia / Paul Zborowski and Ross Storey.
Author:
Zborowski, Paul, authorStorey, Ross, author
Edition:
Fourth edition.
Imprint:
Chatswood, NSW Reed New Holland Publishers, 2017.©2017
Collation:
327 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 21 cm.
Notes:
Previously published by Reed Books, 1995; New Holland, 1998; Reed New Holland, 2003 and 2010.Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
What is an insect? -- Insect life cycles -- Crypsis and mimicry -- Collecting insects -- Classification and a key to the insect orders -- Springtails, proturans and diplurans -- Bristletails and silverfish -- Mayflies -- Dragonflies and damselflies -- Stoneflies -- Cockroaches and Termites -- Mantids -- Earwigs -- Crickets and grasshoppers -- Stick insects and leaf insects -- Web-spinners or embids -- Booklice, psocids and Lice -- True bugs, hoppers, scale insects and aphids -- Thrips -- Alderflies and dobsonflies -- Lacewings, antlions and mantis flies -- Beetles -- Stylops -- Scorpion flies and hanging flies -- Fleas -- Flies -- Caddisflies -- Moths and butterflies -- Wasps, ants, bees and sawflies.
ISBN:
9781925546071
Dewey class:
595.70994
Language:
English
Added title:
Subject:
BRN:
325966