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A field guide to insects in Australia, Paul Zborowski and Ross Storey

Label
A field guide to insects in Australia, Paul Zborowski and Ross Storey
Language
eng
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references and index
Illustrations
illustrations
Index
index present
Intended audience
General
Literary Form
non fiction
Main title
A field guide to insects in Australia
Nature of contents
bibliography
Responsibility statement
Paul Zborowski and Ross Storey
Summary
"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
Table Of 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
resource.variantTitle
Insects in Australia
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