Insects category: 384 books
by Michael Chinery
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2012
The ideal portable companion, the world-renowned Collins Gem series returns with a fresh new look and updated material. This is the perfect pocket guide for nature enthusiasts keen to identify the most commonly seen butterflies and moths in Britain and northern Europe. Authoritative text, beautiful...
by Richard Lewington
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2016
Presented in an accessible, easy-to-use format, this is an ideal guide for both beginners and more experienced enthusiasts. It includes more than 600 superb illustrations of all the life stages of each species, together with beautiful artworks of the butterflies in their natural settings and pertinent...
Britain's Day-flying Moths
A Field Guide to the Day-flying Moths of Britain and Ireland
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2013
This concise photographic field guide will help you identify any of the 100 or so day-flying moths found in Britain and Ireland. Combining stunning photographs, authoritative text, and an easy-to-use design, this book makes a perfect traveling companion--one that will increase your enjoyment of these...
Moth Catcher
An Evolutionist'S Journey Through Canyon And Pass
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2007
***The memoir of a scientist and the wild silk moths he studies***Biologist Michael Collins has been studying wild silk moths since he was a boy. This family — which includes the largest and most colorful of the North American moths — led Collins into a long career as a scientist, and has provided...
The Exquisite Butterfly Companion
The Science and Beauty of 100 Butterflies
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2011
This exquisite set, created with the American Museum of Natural History, is the perfect gift for lovers of Lepidoptera! Tucked inside a case with an organza ribbon closure, you'll find a field guide with information on 100 species of butterfly and moth, plus an envelope with 100 sheets of paper, each...
by Jillian Cowles
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2018
A richly illustrated and up-close look at the secret lives of spiders and other arachnids
The American Southwest is home to an extraordinary diversity of arachnids, from spitting spiders that squirt silk over their prey to scorpions that court one another with kissing and dancing. Amazing Arachnids...
Butterflies of Indiana
A Field Guide
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2012
This field guide to Indiana’s rich butterfly fauna covers all 149 species of butterflies and their close relatives, the skippers. Over 500 color photographs illustrate the undersides and uppersides of most species and highlight the variations found among them, both seasonally and between males and...
Thirteen Years of Hell in Paradise
An Account of the Caribbean Amblyomma Programme
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2010
After leading a regional office in Africa that studied ticks and tick-borne diseases, Rupert Pegram received a call in 1994 that changed his life. His higher ups wanted him to lead a new program in the Caribbean. The Caribbean Amblyomma Program, known as the CAP, sought to eliminate the Amblyomma...
by Glenn Wiggins
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1996
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1996
Caddisflies are one of the most diverse groups of organisms living in freshwater habitats, and their larvae are involved in energy transfer at several levels within these communities. Caddisfly larvae are also remarkable because of the exquisite food-catching nets and portable cases they construct...
Natures Way Fun & Simple
To Suit All Ages
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2015
My garden friends, such a delight, never knowing what goes on through the night. Beautiful swallows, birds, bees, garden hedge, moth, mother goose, kitten, mouse, sun, rain, insightof poems to suit all ages.
Dragonflies: Q&A Guide
Fascinating Facts About Their Life in the Wild
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2014
Got a question about dragonflies? This book has answers. Dragonflies: A Q & A Guide is a lively, illustrated guide for anyone looking to learn more about dragonflies and their lives in the wild.
by E. B. Ford
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2011
A scientific study that keeps in mind the needs of butterfly collectors and of all those who love the country in the hope that it may increase their pleasure by widening the scope of their interests. This edition is exclusive to newnaturalists.com Dr Ford, the author of this fascinating volume on...
Butterflies of Alabama
Glimpses into Their Lives
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2017
Butterflies of Alabama is a full-color, richly illustrated guide to the 84 known species of “true” butterflies (Papilionoidea) found within the state’s borders. For more than 14 years, the authors have made a close study of these showy, winged stars of the insect world, pursuing them in a great...
Four Wings and a Prayer
Caught in the Mystery of the Monarch Butterfly
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2011
Every autumn, the monarch butterflies east of the Rockies migrate from as far north as Canada to Mexico. Memory is not their guide — no one butterfly makes the round trip — but each year somehow find their way to the same fifty acres of forest on the high slopes of Mexico’s Neovolcanic Mountains,...