| Description |
496 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color map ; 20 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 480-482) and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction -- What is an insect? -- Growth and development of Entognaths and insects -- Synopsis of North American Hexapod orders -- What is a spider? -- Synopsis of common North American arachnid orders -- Other arthropods -- Natural history of insects, spiders, and their kin -- Conserving the silent majority -- Finding insects, spiders, and their kin -- Proturans -- Springtails -- Diplurans -- Jumping Bristletails -- Silverfish and Firebrats -- Mayflies -- Dragonflies and Damselflies -- Cockroaches -- Termites -- Mantids -- Rockcrawlers -- Earwigs -- Stoneflies -- Grasshoppers, Crickets, and Katydids -- Stick insects -- Webspinners -- Zorapterans -- Barklice and Booklice -- Chewing and sucking lice -- True bugs, Cicadas, Hoppers, and kin -- Thrips -- Dobsonflies, Fishflies, and Alderflies -- Snakeflies -- Antlions, Lacewings, Mantidflies, and Owlflies -- Beetles -- Twisted-winged parasites -- Scorpionflies and Hanging flies -- Fleas -- Flies -- Caddisflies -- Butterflies and moths -- Ants, bees, and wasps -- Spiders -- Harvestmen -- Scorpions -- Pseudoscorpions -- Windscorpions -- Tailess Whipscorpions -- Whipscorpions -- Ticks and mites -- Centipedes -- Millipedes -- Fairy, Brine, Tadpole and Clam shrimps, and water fleas -- Malacostracans -- How-to guides -- Appendices. |
| Subject |
Insects -- North America -- Identification.
|
|
Spiders -- North America -- Identification.
|
| Added Author |
Tufts, Craig.
|
|
National Wildlife Federation.
|
| Added Title |
Field guide to insects and spiders of North America |
|
Insects and spiders of North America |
| ISBN |
9781402741531 (pbk.) |
|
1402741537 (pbk.) |
|
More Resources