A Field Guide to Insects in Australia
By | Paul Zborowski and Ross Storey |
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Format | Paperback / softback |
Page Extent | 288 |
Book Size | 20 x 214 x 150 mm (H x W x D) |
Imprint | Reed New Holland |
Release Date | 1 Jan 2010 |
Subject Classification | Biology, life sciences / Zoology & animal sciences / Zoology: Invertebrates / Insects (entomology) |
This Third 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.
Whether you're an amateur insect enthusiast, a student or an entomologist, this updated and revised third edition of A Field Guide to Insects in Australia will help you to identify insects from all the major insect groups. With more photographs and up-to-date information, it will enable you to differentiate between a dragonfly and a damselfly or a cricket and a grasshopper. You'll find cockroaches, termites, praying mantids, beetles, cicadas, moths, butterflies, ants and bees.
Paul Zborowski
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.