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Miniature lives : identifying insects in your home and garden /
An easy-to-use identification guide to Australian insects in your home and garden.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Clayton, Vic. :
CSIRO Publishing,
2016.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Miniature Lives
- Contents
- Foreword
- Acknowledgements
- About the author
- 1 Introduction
- Why I wrote this book
- Approaches to identifying insects
- How to use this book
- 2 Insect basics
- What is an insect?
- Insect body parts
- Taxonomy
- how insects are named
- Insect Orders
- how insects are grouped
- Insect growth and lifecycles
- 3 Morphology
- what insects look like
- Using this chapter
- Tips for getting started
- Tools of the trade
- The identification key
- The little guys
- insects less than 5 mm long
- Maggots, grubs and caterpillars
- 4 Habitat
- where insects live and occur
- Using this chapter
- Tips for getting started
- Kitchen and pantry
- Living room
- Bathroom
- Bedroom
- Around lights
- In water
- Soil, leaf litter and compost
- On trees and shrubs
- On citrus trees
- In the vegetable garden
- On native trees and shrubs
- In and around the lawn
- In and around flowers
- On the bodies of animals
- the bloodsuckers
- In large groups
- masses and migrations
- 5 Clever clues
- the strange structures and evidence that insects leave behind
- Using this chapter
- Tips for getting started
- Choose the clue
- Markings on leaves and bark
- Lumps and bumps on plants
- Nests and hideouts
- Cocoons, cases and eggs
- 6 Insect Orders
- How to use this chapter
- Bees, wasps, ants and sawflies
- Order Hymenoptera
- Beetles
- Order Coleoptera
- Booklice
- Order Psocoptera
- Butterflies and moths
- Order Lepidoptera
- Butterflies and moths
- Order Lepidoptera
- Cockroaches
- Order Blattodea
- Dragonflies and damselflies
- Order Odonata
- Earwigs
- Order Dermaptera
- Fleas
- Order Siphonaptera
- Flies
- Order Diptera
- Grasshoppers and crickets
- Order Orthoptera
- Lacewings
- Order Neuroptera
- Lice
- Order Phthiraptera
- Praying mantids
- Order Mantodea.
- Silverfish
- Order Thysanura
- Stick and leaf insects
- Order Phasmatodea
- Termites
- Order Isoptera
- Thrips
- Order Thysanoptera
- True bugs
- Order Hemiptera
- Non-insect arthropods
- Glossary
- Pronunciation guide
- Bibliography
- Further reading
- Index.