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Insects, spiders, and other terrestrial arthropods
—McGavin, George, author.
2000

Book

This handbook, focusing on over 300 of the main insect families, combines a concise description with annotated photographs and illustrations to highlight the insect's chief characteristics, including physical features, life cycle, habitat, and larval stages.

Item Details

ISBN:

  • 9780789493927 (trade paperback)
  • 9780789493927
  • 0789493926
  • 0789453371

Edition: First American edition.

Description: 255 pages : colour illustrations ; 22 cm.

Notes:

  • Includes index.
  • Publisher, pagination and printing dates may vary.

Contents:

  • How this book works
  • What is an arthropod?
  • What is an insect?
  • What is an arachnid?
  • What is a crustacean?
  • What is a myriapod?
  • Life cycle
  • The sensory system
  • Food and feeding
  • Arthropod behavior
  • Social insects --Habitats
  • Studying insects
  • Identification key
  • Insects
  • Noninsect hexapods
  • Crustaceans
  • Arachnids
  • Myriapods.

Control Number: 314992

Publisher: New York : DK Publishing, 2000.
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