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A Field Guide to Insects in Australia : Fourth Edition

A Field Guide to Insects in Australia : Fourth Edition

Author: Paul Zborowski Ross Storey
Publisher: New Holland Publishers
Publication Date: 05 Dec 2022
ISBN-13: 9781925546071
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Description


This Fourth Edition has more than 300 colour photographs that show the insects in their natural habitat, and the line drawings clearly illustrate subtle differences where identification is tricky.


Table of Contents


Preface. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Introduction. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
What is an Insect?. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Insect Life Cycles. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Crypsis and Mimicry. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Collecting Insects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Classification and a Key to the Insect Orders. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Springtails, Proturans and Diplurans. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
Bristletails and Silverfish. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
Mayflies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
Dragonflies and Damselflies. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
Stoneflies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
Cockroaches and Termites . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
Mantids. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76
Earwigs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82
Crickets and Grasshoppers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
Stick Insects and Leaf Insects. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100
Web-spinners or Embiids . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105
Booklice, Psocids and Lice. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107
True Bugs, Hoppers, Scale Insects and Aphids. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112
Thrips. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138
Alderflies and Dobsonflies. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141
Lacewings, Antlions and Mantis Flies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143
Beetles. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152
Stylopids. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193
Scorpion Flies and Hanging Flies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195
Fleas. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197
Flies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199
Caddisflies. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225
Moths and Butterflies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 230
Wasps, Ants, Bees and Sawflies. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 279
Glossary. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 315
Further Reading. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 319
Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 321


Author Description


Paul Zborowski is a qualified entomologist with over 25 years experience of field based study of insects and related creatures in habitats all over the world's tropics. This practical knowledge is available on a consultancy basis to documentary film makers - providing a location search, subject behaviour capture, and studio and field set design and building. Paul has worked with diverse film crews from the BBC Bristol Wildlife Unit, NHK TV and Tokyo TV of Japan, Discovery Channel of America, Wildvisuals and Quest of Australia, and produces reference, field guides and children's books.






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