Insect Identification: Print Books

In addition to an identification manual, this book explains how to observe insects and how to collect and preserve them.

An examination of how collapsing insect populations worldwide threaten everything from wild birds to the food on our plate. Milman explores this hidden emergency, arguing that its consequences could even rival climate change. Even insects we may dread, including cockroaches and stinging wasps, play crucial ecological roles, and their decline would profoundly shape our own story.

A comprehensive guide covering insect orders and families with color photographs showing typical behaviors and key characteristics. The index includes guidance on observing, collecting, and photographing insects and discusses declining habitats and threats to biodiversity.

A guide to 46 recognized bumble bee species in North America, north of Mexico with color photographs, diagrams, range maps, and graphs of seasonal activity patterns. It draws on a large repository of data from museum collections and presents evolutionary relationships, distributions, and ecological roles.

Naturalists Kaufman and Eaton use an ecological approach to describe insect behavior. Includes more than 2,350 digitally enhanced photographs representing every major group of insects found in North America north of Mexico.

Covers butterfly biology and ecology, including structure, flight, metamorphosis, hibernation, physiology, roosting, migration, mating, egg-laying, social behavior, larval and adult foods, enemies, mimicry, variation, evolution, habitats, distribution, and conservation. Includes a bibliography and an index of all common and scientific butterfly names.

Stunning photographic profiles of a selection of insects held by London's Natural History Museum. Photo captions describe the bug's lifestyle, distribution, size, and key characteristics. The introduction explains the different orders and families found in the insect classes and an explanation of how they have evolved.

Covers all families of the million-plus species of insects and spiders. Includes information on insect and spider biology and behavior with illustrations, and color photographs. Each entry provides essential data: scientific order, population distribution, habitat size and color, reproduction, life cycle, and longevity conservation status.

Covers all aspects of insect anatomy, physiology, evolution, behavior, reproduction, ecology, and disease, as well as issues of exploitation, conservation, and management