
- 192 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
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
- Cover
- Title Page
- Contents
- Introduction
- Mayflies, Ephemeroptera
- Damselflies and Dragonflies, Odonata
- Stoneflies, Plecoptera
- Crickets and Grasshoppers, Orthoptera
- Cockroaches and Mantises, Dictyoptera
- Earwigs, Dermaptera
- True Bugs, Hemiptera
- Ant-lions, Lacewings and allies, Neuroptera
- Alder Flies, Megaloptera
- Scorpion Flies, Mecoptera
- Butterflies and Moths, Lepidoptera
- Caddis Flies, Trichoptera
- True Flies, Diptera
- Sawflies, Ants, Wasps, Bees and relatives, Hymenoptera
- Beetles, Coleoptera
- Springtails, Collembola
- Glossary
- Bibliography and Resources
- Organisations and Societies
- eCopyright