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National Wildlife Federation field guide to insects and spiders & related species of North America
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Also includes material on proturans, springtails, diplurans, harvestmen, scorpions, ticks, mites, centipedes, millipedes, crayfish, pillbugs, fairy, brine, tadpole, and clam shrimps, water fleas, a...
Also includes material on proturans, springtails, diplurans, harvestmen, scorpions, ticks, mites, centipedes, millipedes, crayfish, pillbugs, fairy, brine, tadpole, and clam shrimps, water fleas, and malacostracans.
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- Creator
- written by Arthur V. Evans ; foreword by Craig Tufts
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- Books
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- English
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- New York : Sterling Pub. ; [Woodstock, Vt.] : Andrew Stewart Pub., 2007
- ©2008
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- 496 pages : illustrations (some color), color map ; 20 cm
- ISBNs
- 9781402741531, 1402741537
- OCLC
- ocn316566700
- Col. map on p. [3] of cover.
- Originally published: New York : Sterling Pub., ©2007.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 480-482) and index.
- Introduction -- Insects, spiders, and people -- Scope and arrangement of this guide -- Classification -- What is an insect? -- The body plan of insects and entognaths -- Growth and development of entognaths and insects -- Metamorphosis -- Synopsis of North American hexapod orders -- Class entognatha -- Class insecta -- What is a spider? -- The body plan of spiders -- Synopsis of common North American arachnid orders -- Other arthropods -- Myriapoda : centipedes, millipedes, and kin -- Crustacea : crayfish, shrimps, pillbugs, and kin -- Natural history of insects, spiders, and their kin -- Feeding behavior -- Defense behavior -- Conserving the silent majority -- Finding insects, spiders, and their kin -- Where to look -- Making an identification -- About the guide -- Entognaths -- Proturans (order Protura) -- Springtails (order Collembola) -- Diplurans (order Diplura) -- Insects -- Jumping bristletails (order Microcoryphia) -- Silverfish and firebrats (order Thysanura) -- Mayflies (order Ephemeroptera) -- Dragonflies and damselflies (order Odonata) -- Cockroaches (order Blattodea) -- Termites (order Isoptera)
- Mantids (order Mantodea) -- Rockcrawlers (order Grylloblattodea) -- Earwigs (order Dermaptera) -- Stoneflies (order Plecoptera) -- Grasshoppers, crickets, and katydids (order Orthoptera) -- Stick insects (order Phasmida) -- Webspinners (order Embioptera) -- Zorapterans (order Zoraptera) -- Barklice and booklice (order Psocoptera) -- Chewing and sucking lice (order Phthiraptera) -- True bugs, cicadas, hoppers, and kin (order Hemiptera) -- Thrips (order Thysanoptera) -- Dobsonflies, fishflies, and alderflies (order Megaloptera) -- Snakeflies (order Raphidioptera) -- Antlions, lacewings, mantidflies, and owlflies (order Neuroptera) -- Beetles (order Coleoptera) -- Twisted-winged parasites (order Strepsiptera) -- Scorpionflies and hangingflies (order Mecoptera) -- Fleas (order Siphonaptera) -- Flies (order Diptera) -- Caddisflies (order Trichoptera) -- Butterflies and moths (order Lepidoptera) -- Ants, bees, and wasps (order Hymenoptera) -- Arachnids -- Spiders (order Araneae) -- Harvestmen (order Opiliones) -- Scorpions (order Scorpiones)
- Pseudoscorpions (order Pseudoscorpiones) -- Windscorpions (order Solifugae) -- Tailless whipscorpions (order Amblypygi) -- Whipscorpions (order Uropygi) -- Ticks and mites (order Acari) -- Other arthropods -- Centipedes (Class Chilopoda) -- Millipedes (class Diplopoda) -- Fairy, brine, tadpole and clam shrimps, and water fleas (class Branchiopoda) -- Malacostracans (class Malacostraca) -- How-to guides -- Starting an insect and spider collection -- Keeping insects and spiders in captivity -- Planting an arthropod garden -- Macrophotography -- Appendices -- Acknowledgments -- Staff for this guide -- Illustration sources -- Photo credits -- Glossary -- Pronunciation guide -- Orders of arthropods in North America -- Endangered and threatened insects and arachnids -- Insect zoos and butterfly houses -- Resources and references -- Index