Pocket Guide to Insects
eBook - ePub

Pocket Guide to Insects

  1. 192 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Pocket Guide to Insects

About this book

A compact guide covering everything you need to know about insects of the UK. This pocket-sized book is an essential guide to insects, helping you to identify around 240 of the most easily noticed British species selected from a range of orders and families. The introduction covers the characteristics of an insect, where to find them as well as the conservation work in demand around the world, then entries on each species are divided into simple sections covering general information followed by its flight period, habitat and similar species. As visually impressive as it is useful in the field, Pocket Guide to Insects features many stunning full-page and double-page images supporting the authoritative text. Part of the Pocket Guides series covering British and European wildlife, including garden birds, butterflies, mushrooms, wild flowers, trees and shrubs and tracks and signs.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Contents
  4. Introduction
  5. Mayflies, Ephemeroptera
  6. Damselflies and Dragonflies, Odonata
  7. Stoneflies, Plecoptera
  8. Crickets and Grasshoppers, Orthoptera
  9. Cockroaches and Mantises, Dictyoptera
  10. Earwigs, Dermaptera
  11. True Bugs, Hemiptera
  12. Ant-lions, Lacewings and allies, Neuroptera
  13. Alder Flies, Megaloptera
  14. Scorpion Flies, Mecoptera
  15. Butterflies and Moths, Lepidoptera
  16. Caddis Flies, Trichoptera
  17. True Flies, Diptera
  18. Sawflies, Ants, Wasps, Bees and relatives, Hymenoptera
  19. Beetles, Coleoptera
  20. Springtails, Collembola
  21. Glossary
  22. Bibliography and Resources
  23. Organisations and Societies
  24. eCopyright