Zoology: invertebrates Books
University of Iowa Press The Butterflies of Iowa
Book SynopsisThis beautiful and comprehensive guide, many years in the making, is a manual for identifying the butterflies of Iowa as well as 90 percent of the butterflies in the Plains states. It begins by providing information on the natural communities of Iowa, paying special attention to butterfly habitat and distribution. Next come chapters on the history of lepidopteran research in Iowa and on creating butterfly gardens, followed by an intriguing series of questions and issues relevant to the study of butterflies in the state. The second part contains accounts, organized by family, for the 118 species known to occur in Iowa. Each account includes the common and scientific names for each species, its Opler and Warren number, its status in Iowa, adult flight times and number of broods per season, distinguishing features, distribution and habitat, and natural history information such as behavior and food plant preferences. As a special feature of each account, the authors have included questions that illuminate the research and conservation challenges for each species. In the third section, the illustrations, grouped for easier comparison among species, include color photographs of all the adult forms that occur in Iowa. Male and female as well as top and bottom views are shown for most species. The distribution maps indicate in which of Iowa's ninety-nine counties specimens have been collected; flight times for each species are shown by marking the date of collection for each verified specimen on a yearly calendar. The book ends with a checklist, collection information specific to the photographs, a glossary, references, and an index. The authors' meticulous attention to detail, stimulating questions for students and researchers, concern for habitat preservation, and joyful appreciation of the natural world make it a valuable and inspiring volume.
£24.65
Smithsonian Books Moths: A Complete Guide to Biology and Behavior
Book SynopsisAccessible introduction to the biology, life cycle, natural history, and classification of mothsMoths are a crucial insect group encompassing more than 160,000 species, and they are among the most ancient of Earth's inhabitants, with some fossils believed to be 190 million years old. This richly illustrated guide to their biology, evolution, and history demonstrates the incredible diversity of these winged insects and reveals the ruthless survival tactics used by some--including blood-sucking moths, cannibalism in the cocoon, and carnivorous caterpillars. The book also explores their extraordinary life cycle, charting development from egg to larva to cocoon to airborne adult, as well as the surprising variations of color and wing patterns that moths have evolved. Engaging narrative and specially commissioned photographs of moth specimens make Moths: A Complete Guide to Biology and Behavior a perfect gift book for scientists and science enthusiasts alike.
£19.96
Smithsonian Books Smithsonian Handbook of Interesting Insects
Book SynopsisA stunning entomology field guide featuring 126 exquisite full-color photographs and concise, informative descriptions for bug identification, suitable for insect lovers of all ages.This colorful insect field guide presents striking photographic profiles of insects, each one specially selected from the 34 million specimens found in one of the oldest and most important entomology collection in the world, held by London's Natural History Museum.The book showcases more than 100 significant bug species, including the ruby-tailed wasp, the garden tiger moth, the jewel beetle, the flying stick insect, the orchid bee, and many others. Readers will learn to distinguish, for example, the translucent abdomen of the great pied hoverfly from the yellow or orange markings on a giant scoliid wasp.Based on the most up-to-date science, this in-depth handbook includes: insightful introduction that explores the different orders and families found in the insect classes and an explanation of how they have evolved 126 magnificent full-color photographs showing the bugs in dazzling detail descriptive captions outlining the bug's lifestyle, distribution, size, and key characteristics Accessibly written, this is the perfect gift for insect lovers, from curious kids who love bugs to seasoned scientists and amateur science readers alike.
£17.95
Adventure Publications, Incorporated Backyard Bugs: An Identification Guide to Common
Book SynopsisGet to know the bugs in your backyard.How many times have you seen a bug and wondered, "What in the world is that?" Here's an easy and fun way to identify backyard bugs. Acclaimed entomologist and nature author Jaret C. Daniels presents a simple yet informative guide to backyard bugs of the United States and southern Canada. Featuring more than 150 species organized by where the bugs are generally found—such as at lights or on flowers—this fascinating book covers everything from ants to mosquitoes to spiders. Its easy-to-use format, full-color photographs, and neat-to-know information are handy for homeowners, gardeners, campers, and even children. As an added bonus, there are bug-related activities for families to enjoy. When you see a bug, look it up. You'll be amazed by what you learn!
£10.99
HarperCollins Focus Discovering Bugs: Meet the Coolest Creepy
Book SynopsisMeet the coolest creepy crawlies on the planet! Discovering Bugs features an in-your-face look at more than fifty fascinating insects--as if through a magnifying glass!Zoom in on the coolest bugs in the world, crawling the forest floor alongside beetles and ants, and flying the skies with bees and dragonflies. Discovering Bugs makes you feel as if you're looking through a microscope...and the deeply textured cover looks and feels like a gigantic spider! Stunning artwork takes you up-close-and-personal with 50 of the most interesting "bugs" from around the world. Your own backyard! Discovering Bugs features: Profiles of dozens of awesome critters, from the teeny, tiny fairyfly wasp to the ginormous Goliath beetle! Fun Facts highlighting the fascinating features of each species, from the classic monarch butterfly, to the Gooty sapphire tarantula, to the Hercules beetle! Intricate, full-page illustrations show these creatures in action, battling other bugs or blending into their natural environments!
£18.50
OUP USA Invertebrates
Book SynopsisPublished by Sinauer Associates, an imprint of Oxford University Press. For each of the thirty-two currently recognized phyla, Invertebrates, Third Edition, presents detailed classifications, revised taxonomic synopses, updated information on general biology and anatomy, and current phylogenetic hypotheses, organized with boxes and tables, and illustrated with abundant line drawings and new color photos.
£164.69
Creative Education Spineless Sea Creatures
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£39.83
Island Press Immersion: The Science and Mystery of Freshwater
Book SynopsisIn Immersion: The Science and Mystery of Freshwater Mussels, Abbie Gascho Landis brings readers to a hotbed of mussel diversity, the American Southeast, to seek mussels where they eat, procreate, and, too often, perish. Accompanied often by her husband, a mussel scientist, and her young children, she learned to see mussels on the creekbed, to tell a spectaclecase from a pigtoe, and to worry what vanishing mussels, 70 percent of North American species are imperilled, will mean for humans and wildlife alike. In Immersion, Landis shares this journey, travelling from perilous river surveys to dry streambeds and into laboratories where endangered mussels are raised one precious life at a time. Mussels have much to teach us about the health of our watersheds if we step into the creek and take a closer look at their lives. In the tradition of writers like Terry Tempest Williams and Sy Montgomery, Landis gracefully chronicles these untold stories with a veterinarian's careful eye and the curiosity of a naturalist.In turns joyful and sobering, Immersion is an invitation to see rivers from a mussel's perspective, a celebration of the wild lives visible to those who learn to search.
£25.20
Nova Science Publishers Inc Phylogeography: Its Importance in Insect Pest
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£39.74
Nova Science Publishers Inc Bees: Biology, Threats & Colonies
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£146.24
Nova Science Publishers Inc Moths: Types, Ecological Significance & Control
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£146.24
X-Star Publishing Company Huber's New Observations Upon Bees The Complete Volumes I & II
£47.50
X-Star Publishing Company The Practical Beekeeper Volume I Beginning Beekeeping Naturally
£19.00
X-Star Publishing Company The Practical Beekeeper Volume II Intermediate Beekeeping Naturally
£19.00
X-Star Publishing Company The Practical Beekeeper Volume III Advanced Beekeeping Naturally
£19.00
X-Star Publishing Company El Apicultor Practico Volumenes I, II & III Apicultor Natural
£44.10
X-Star Publishing Company Honey in the Comb
£14.00
X-Star Publishing Company Bienen-Kunst
£20.90
Experiment Planet of the Ants: The Hidden Worlds and
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£13.29
Coachwhip Publications Millipeds in Captivity: Diplopodan Husbandry and Reproductive Biology (Millipede Husbandry)
£41.81
Coachwhip Publications Breeding the World's Largest Living Arachnid: Amblypygid (Whipspider) Biology, Natural History, and Captive Husbandry
£42.70
Academic Studies Press Invertebrate Paleontology (Mesozoic) of Israel
Book SynopsisThis book consists of a series of papers that help to unravel the taxonomy of the phylum Brachiopoda and describe associated marine communities in the Levant. These faunas inhabited shallow shelf environments near the boundary of the Indo-African and Tethyan faunal realms near the Jurassic equator along the southern Tethyan margin. This research is part of a long term project that aims to delineate the distribution of brachiopods across faunal realm boundaries and reconstruct the biogeographic history of the region. The work provides a more detailed analysis of the endemism that is characteristic of the faunas of northern Sinai, the Negev and Jordan, and will also aid in the construction of a biogeographic framework for Jurassic strata in the Middle East. It represents an important contribution to our knowledge of the evolution of modern marine communities because their roots lie in the ecological diversifications of the Jurassic.
£82.79
Nova Science Publishers Inc Crabs: Anatomy, Habitat & Ecological Significance
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£106.49
Pogo Books Super Ants
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£10.30
Bolt! Asian Giant Hornets
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£35.24
Bolt! Fire Ants
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£35.24
Bolt! Killer Bees
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£35.24
Bolt! Kissing Bugs
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£35.24
Bolt! Tsetse Flies
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£35.24
Bellwether Media Fire Ants
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£12.34
Bellwether Media Hissing Cockroaches
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£12.34
Bellwether Media Fireflies
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£12.34
Bellwether Media Ladybugs
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£12.34
Nova Science Publishers Inc Reptiles in Research: Investigations of Ecology,
Book SynopsisReptiles demonstrate remarkable diversity across the landscape. From inland habitats of deserts and grasslands to coastal plains and oceans, the unique adaptations and life histories of reptiles have been shaped by a suite of abiotic and biotic factors. It is the interface between the organism and its environment that present biologists with the opportunity to explore how reptiles behaviourally and physiologically respond to their environments and to determine what factors govern their ecology. This book captures the interests of all readers with a text that is foundational for the novice herpetologist, while informative for beginning students and seasoned research scientists. This book offers its readers a glimpse into the passions of scientists who find reptiles fascinating creatures of study. You will see how reptiles serve as organismal models that continue to advance our knowledge and understanding of complex biological processes and systems. Dr William I Lutterschmidt (Professor of Physiological Ecology) has invited top researchers from around the world to share their personal research interests and illustrate how environment influences the ecology, physiology, and behaviour of reptiles. This book will introduce a diversity of research fields and reptilian species, from how web-footed geckos move in desert sands to how sea snakes cope physiologically with high salinity. Topics include invasive species, urban ecology, mathematical simulation, sexual selection, hybridisation and gene flow, chemical ecology, neurobiology, spatial ecology, conservation biology, biodiversity, immunology, and molecular biology.
£215.99
Nova Science Publishers Inc Vertebrate & Invertebrate Animal Approaches
Book SynopsisThis book is comprised of important contributions from expert researchers around the world concerning the biology of animals from a variety of approaches. In particular are manuscripts that deal with cellular, biochemical, genetic, reproductive, and ecological themes including various manuscripts regarding invertebrate animals. Regarding this last animal class, the science provides excellent models to study a lot of biological processes that can explain the evolution and diversity of life on the earth''s surface. They are simple organisms, the studies of which can contribute to explanations of how the metabolic processes found in vertebrates and humans started and have been maintained. This book also provides results that demonstrate some effects and interactions among environmental conditions and drugs on the morphology and biochemical processes in cells, and it contains reviews concerning the interaction between pathogenic invertebrates and human diseases. The aim of these studies was to provide important results that are not commonly treated in traditional and experimental models within the current scientific scene.
£146.24
WW Norton & Co Tales from the Ant World
Book Synopsis“Ants are the most warlike of all animals, with colony pitted against colony,” writes E.O. Wilson, one of the world’s most beloved scientists, “their clashes dwarf Waterloo and Gettysburg.” In Tales from the Ant World, two-time Pulitzer Prize-winner Wilson takes us on a myrmecological tour to such far-flung destinations as Mozambique and New Guinea, the Gulf of Mexico’s Dauphin Island and even his parent’s overgrown backyard, thrillingly relating his nine-decade-long scientific obsession with over 15,000 ant species. Animating his scientific observations with illuminating personal stories, Wilson hones in on twenty-five ant species to explain how these genetically superior creatures talk, smell, and taste, and more significantly, how they fight to determine who is dominant. Wryly observing that “males are little more than flying sperm missiles” or that ants send their “little old ladies into battle,” Wilson eloquently relays his brushes with fire, army, and leafcutter ants, as well as more exotic species. Among them are the very rare Matabele, Africa’s fiercest warrior ants, whose female hunters can carry up to fifteen termites in their jaw (and, as Wilson reports from personal experience, have an incredibly painful stinger); Costa Rica’s Basiceros, the slowest of all ants; and New Caledonia’s Bull Ants, the most endangered of them all, which Wilson discovered in 2011 after over twenty years of presumed extinction. Richly illustrated throughout with depictions of ant species by Kristen Orr, as well as photos from Wilsons’ expeditions throughout the world, Tales from the Ant World is a fascinating, if not occasionally hair-raising, personal account by one of our greatest scientists and a necessary volume for any lover of the natural world.Trade Review"The world-renowned ant expert cleans out his desk, which—no surprise—contains many gems.... Pulitzer Prize–winning author and naturalist Wilson’s writing on broader scientific subjects have won him awards and no lack of controversy. Now 90, largely retired from fieldwork and scholarship but an indefatigable writer, he has assembled scraps of autobiography and anecdotes on his favorite insect.... the content and quality of the writing is consistently top-notch." -- Kirkus Reviews, starred review"[Wilson] delivers an illuminating work filled with insights into his specialty subject: ants. . . . Wilson’s passion for his subject, for the scientific method, and for the natural world comes through clearly in this enjoyable survey." -- Publishers Weekly"Readers seeking an accessible natural history on an often-misunderstood insect will appreciate Wilson’s modest, conversational tone in this brief look at his lifetime of appreciating nature’s small wonders." -- Elissa Cooper - Library Journal" Praise for Edward O. Wilson “Wilson speaks with a humane eloquence which calls to us all.” —Oliver Sacks “In Mr Wilson ants have found not only their Darwin but also their Homer.” —The Economist “One of our grand masters of synthesis.” —Richard Rhodes “Part epic-inspired adventure story, part philosophy-of-life. . . . part ant life up close, part lyrical hymn to the wonders of earth. . . . yes, all of these.” —Margaret Atwood, New York Review of Books, on Anthill "
£18.89
Callisto Reference Encyclopedia of Entomology: Volume I
£89.99
Callisto Reference Encyclopedia of Entomology: Volume II
£89.99
Callisto Reference Encyclopedia of Entomology: Volume III
£89.99
North Star Editions Bugs: Army Ants
Book SynopsisThis informative book introduces young readers to the habitat, physical features, diet, and behavior of Army ants. The book also includes a "That’s Amazing!" special feature, several "Did You Know?" facts, a table of contents, quiz questions, a glossary, additional resources, and an index. This Focus Readers title is at the Pioneer level, aligned to reading levels of grades 1-2 and interest levels of grades 1-3.
£22.49
North Star Editions Bugs: Army Ants
Book SynopsisThis informative book introduces young readers to the habitat, physical features, diet, and behavior of Army ants. The book also includes a "That’s Amazing!" special feature, several "Did You Know?" facts, a table of contents, quiz questions, a glossary, additional resources, and an index. This Focus Readers title is at the Pioneer level, aligned to reading levels of grades 1-2 and interest levels of grades 1-3.
£8.99
Murphy & Moore Publishing Introduction to Entomology
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£106.72
Callisto Reference Invertebrate Zoology
£85.64
Callisto Reference Essential Entomology
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£98.41
Larsen and Keller Education Invertebrate Zoology: An Introduction
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£103.95
North Star Editions Animal Files: We Need Bees
Book SynopsisIntroduces readers to the roles of bees in world ecosystems, as well as threats to bee populations and conservation efforts. Eye-catching infographics, clear text, and a “That’s Amazing!” feature make this book an engaging exploration of the importance of bees.Trade Review"A solid introduction to keystone species." —School Library Journal
£23.99
North Star Editions Animal Files: We Need Bees
Book SynopsisIntroduces readers to the roles of bees in world ecosystems, as well as threats to bee populations and conservation efforts. Eye-catching infographics, clear text, and a “That’s Amazing!” feature make this book an engaging exploration of the importance of bees.Trade Review"A solid introduction to keystone species." —School Library Journal
£9.89
Black Rabbit Books Ant vs. Gorilla
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£8.99
