Zoology: invertebrates

Based on over 2,500 specimens representing all the species of Leptinotarsa in Canada, the United States, and Mexico, this book includes studies on 31 of the 41 known species of the world.

Using an exceptionally clear writing style, minimal scientific jargon, and vivid photos and drawings, this book provides a comprehensive view of the fundamentals of entomology.

Instinctive Living: A Study of Invertebrate Behaviour discusses the behaviors of some invertebrate animals.

This book comprehensively reviews current pest management practices and explores novel integrated pest management strategies in Brassica oilseed crops.

RSPB Spotlight: Bumblebees is packed with eye-catching, informative colour photos, and features succcinct and detailed text written by a knowledgeable naturalist.

Ponds and small lakes support an extremely rich biodiversity of fascinating organisms.

This volume reviews the historical roots and theoretical foundations of biological systematics in an approachable text.

The types of plants and animals that live on seashores in temperate regions are similar around the globe, but many of the individual species in south-eastern Australia are found only in this region.

Insect Colonization and Mass Production reviews the great strides that have been made in the colonization and mass production of insects, including the methods used in rearing representative species and the general principles of nutrition and management that can be applied to the colonization of other species.

Design, Operation, and Control of Insect-Rearing Systems: Science, Technology, and Infrastructure explains the fundamental components of insect rearing:1) the rearing systems, per se2) personnel3) education of rearing personnel4) communication of procedures5) an in-depth look at silkworm rearing5) facilities where rearing is conducted, and6) funding for all these components.

A walk in the bush reveals insects visiting flowers, patrolling the air, burrowing under bark and even biting your skin.

Dying on the Vine chronicles 150 years of scientific warfare against the grapevine's worst enemy: phylloxera.

Ornamental trees, shrubs and flowers have always been extremely popular and in large demand.

Oribatid mites, also called beetle or moss mites, include more than 10,000 named species representing 172 families worldwide.

A catalogue of the soft-scale insects of the world (Homoptera: Coccoidea: Cocidae) with data on geographical distribution, host plants, biology and economic importance.

View the animal kingdom up close as never before in this breathtaking title, which has already sold over 1.

Species Problems and Beyond offers a collection of up-to-date essays discussing from an interdisciplinary perspective the many ramifications of the 'Species Problem.

Volume 5 of "e;Insect-Plant Interactions"e; is a volume in a series that presents research in the field.

Written by three of the top professionals in the turfgrass field, Managing Turfgrass Pests, Second Edition brings together hundreds of solutions and best practices to help you manage turfgrass weeds, diseases, and insects more effectively.

This textbook presents theory and concepts in integrated pest management, complemented by two award-winning websites covering more practical aspects.

Heteropterans regularly cause a wide variety and large number of problems for humans - at times on a catastrophic scale.

Advances in Insect Physiology, Volume 61 highlights new advances in the field, with this new volume presenting interesting chapters on a variety of timely topics, including Acoustic signaling in Orthoptera, Sound production in Drosophila melanogaster, and Communication by surface borne mechanical waves in insects.

Pests, Diseases and Beneficials helps gardeners to identify and deal with those common insects and small animals (such as bugs, beetles, caterpillars, thrips and mites) that are found in every Australian garden.

Parasitic infections are a major global concern, adversely affects animal health and responsible for significant economic losses in terms of decreased milk production, meat quality, depreciation of hide, manure and draught power.

The ultimate visual journey into the beautiful and complex world of waspsWasps are far more diverse than the familiar yellowjackets and hornets that harass picnickers and build nests under the eaves of our homes.

Zoom in to the world of creepy crawlies and discover the secrets of the most successful creatures on the planet!

This book is an outcome of the proceedings of the expert's meeting on the protection of citrus groves held in Acireale in 1985.

The goal of much of the scientific work in natural history museums is to explore and document the biological diversity of the planet.

Variable Plants and Herbivores in Natural and Managed Systems examines individual, population, species, and community responses of herbivores to plant variation, with emphasis on insects, fungi, bacteria, and viruses.

Ticks of the Southern Cone of America: Diagnosis, Distribution and Hosts with Taxonomy, Ecology and Sanitary Importance focuses on the tick species prevalent in The Southern Cone of America, including their distribution, biology, associated pathogens, their effects on the host, and control methods.

Vertebrate evolution has led to the convergent appearance of many groups of originally terrestrial animals that now live in the sea.

This comprehensive volume provides a plethora of first-hand information on the diversity, biology, and ecology of edible marine bivalve molluscs.

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The sixth title in the bestselling Collins Guide series, this book covers the fungi of the British Isles, with considerable relevance for Europe and the wider temperate world.

Insects occur in different ecological niches of mangrove forest.

Advances in Invertebrate (Neuro)Endocrinology: A Collection of Reviews in the Post-Genomic Era (2-volume set) provides an informative series of reviews from expert scientists who are at the forefront of their research into the endocrinology of invertebrates.

Invertebrate Embryology and Reproduction deals with the practical and theoretical objectives of the descriptive embryology of invertebrates, along with discussions on reproduction in these groups of animals.

Dragonflies and damselflies are conspicuous insects - many are large and brightly coloured.

Trematodology - the study of a class of medically important parasitic, flat-bodied worms - has made significant advances over the past ten years.

In insect and other arthropod immune systems, discrimination between self and nonself tissues is accomplished through the combined actions of two immunocytes and several humoral factors.

A unique and personal insight into the ecology and evolution of pollinators, their relationships with flowers, and their conservation in a rapidly changing world.

A thorough update of Arnett's The Beetles of the United States, American Beetles, Volumes I and II cover the genera of beetles that occur in Alaska, Canada, and the contiguous United States.

The 300 known viruses that affect invertebrates, mostly insects, are important for research and for pest control.

Heteropterans regularly cause a wide variety and large number of problems for humans - at times on a catastrophic scale.

An important reference detailing the distribution, prevalence and incidence of vector- and rodent-borne diseases in Europe, USA and Canada.

This book is the fourth in a series of 4 volumes in the Handbook of Zoology series about morphology, anatomy, reproduction, development, ecology, phylogeny and systematics of Annelida.

A comprehensive, full-colour work providing insights into recent advances in the ecological understanding of ladybirds.

Aphids Unveiled: The Saga of Nature's Most Irritating Insects explores the curious journey of these tiny insects from humble beginnings to becoming the most obnoxious pests for farmers and home gardeners alike.

This book is a revised edition of the first of three volumes in the Handbook of Zoology series which treats the systematics and biology of Coleoptera.