The Natural History of Insects

Author: Martin Walters
Publisher: Armadillo
ISBN: 9781844764686
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
In the arthropoda phylum, insects are one of the most successful species, and spiders are one of the largest groups. This book studies how they organize their lives. The first section provides information of every aspect of insect life: evolution, anatomy, life cycles, flight and social organization. The last section describes the 30 orders within the class Insecta, demonstrating the huge variety of insects, from microscopic creatures to giant stick insects and large beetles. Typical features of insects in each order are highlighted. With expert text, illustrations and clear photographs, this guide will be enjoyed by all who take an interest in natural history.

Innumerable Insects

Author: Michael S. Engel
Publisher: Sterling
ISBN: 9781454923237
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 232

Book Description
A fascinating look at the world's most numerous inhabitants, illustrated with stunning images from the American Museum of Natural History's Rare Book Collection. It is estimated that there are around five million insect species on Earth, and this magnificent volume tells their incredible story. It covers everything from insect evolution, metamorphosis, and camouflage to society, language, and pollination--plus tales of discovery by intrepid entomologists. More than 180 illustrations describe these fascinating animals down to their tiniest details, from butterflies' iridescent wings to beetles' vibrant colors.

Insects

Author: Steven A. Marshall
Publisher: Richmond Hill, Ont. : Firefly Books
ISBN:
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 790

Book Description
An examination of the characteristics, habitat and behavior of insects, including comprehensive picture keys for insect identification.

A Natural History of Insects in 100 Limericks

Author: Richard Jones
Publisher: Pelagic Publishing Ltd
ISBN: 1784272515
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 225

Book Description
Insects are often overlooked because they are small or ignored because they are deemed trivial, and many are dismissed as nuisance pests. But their numbers and diversity are mind-numbing, and under even a modest hand lens they are beautiful or bizarre. Insects dominate the centre ground of all terrestrial and most aquatic ecosystems. They inform us of the conservation value of ancient woodland and chalk downland. They help monitor the purity or pollution levels of ponds, streams and rivers. And they can demonstrate the effects of climate change, acting as warning lights to alert us to the damage that humans are doing to the world. Recent insectageddon headlines are starting to make people sit up and take more notice. What better way to promote an interest in these fascinating creatures than by poetizing them? This cornucopia of discordant nonsense, with some quite frankly dubious rhyming clashes, is offered up so that entomological outreach will at least benefit from their shock value.

The Book of Nature

Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 28

Book Description
A father tells his child about the wonder of the natural world from a Christian point of view.

California Insects

Author: Jerry A. Powell
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520037823
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 420

Book Description
What is that creature that just landed on my arm? What will that funny-looking caterpillar turn into? What do lady-bugs eat? This book will help you to answer such questions (and many more) about your local insects. - From inside cover.

History of Insects

Author: A.P. Rasnitsyn
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 0306475774
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 524

Book Description
This is the first single book to cover the whole of the fossil history of insects so comprehensively. The volume embraces subjects from the history of insect palaeontology to the diagnostic features of all insect orders, both extant and extinct.

Evolution of the Insects

Author: David Grimaldi
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521821490
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 790

Book Description
Insects are the most diverse group of organisms in the 3 billion-year history of life on Earth, and the most ecologically dominant animals on land. This book chronicles for the first time the complete evolutionary history of insects: their living diversity, relationships and 400 million years of fossils. Whereas other volumes have focused on either living species or fossils, this is the first comprehensive synthesis of all aspects of insect evolution. The book is illustrated with 955 photo- and electronmicrographs, drawings, diagrams, and field photos, many in full colour and virtually all of them original. The book will appeal to anyone engaged with insect diversity: professional entomologists and students, insect and fossil collectors, and naturalists.

True Bugs of the World (Hemiptera:Heteroptera)

Author: Randall T. Schuh
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 9780801420665
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 362

Book Description
This monumental reference work treats an entire worldwide order of insects. It summarizes, from both a biological and sytematic perspective, current knowledge on the Heteroptera, or true bugs, a group containing approximately 35,000 species, many of which are important to agriculture and public health. To introduce the reader to this group, Randall T. Schuh and James A. Slater offer chapters on the history of the study of the Heteroptera, research techniques, and sources of specimens. They also cover attributes of general biological interest, including habitats, habits, mimicry, and wing polymorphism; selected taxa of economic importance; and basic morphology.Presenting a current classification of the Heteroptera, the authors synthesize to the subfamily and sometimes tribal level the enormous, scattered literature, including diagnoses, keys, general natural history, a summary of distributions, and a listing of important faunistic works. In addition to a wealth of detailed illustrations, they provide a glossary to help the reader deal with the confusing terminology that has evolved over the years, as well as an extensive bibliography of more than 1350 entries.Meticulously prepared by two of the world's leading specialists, this major work will be the standard reference on the Heteroptera for many years to come.

ABC Insects

Author: American Museum of Natural History
Publisher: Sterling Children's Books
ISBN: 9781454911944
Category : Alphabet
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Teaches young readers the alphabet along with introducing insects, from egg-laying aphids to the striped zebra longwing butterfly, with fun facts about the insects on each page.--