This engaging and easy-to-use natural history guidebook provides a thorough overview of native and honey bee biology and offers tools for identifying the most common bees of California and the Western United States.
The ant fauna of the Fijian archipelago is a diverse assemblage of endemic radiations, pan-Pacific species, and exotics introduced from around the world.
Insects boast incredible diversity, and this book treats an important component of the western insect biota that has not been summarized before-moths and their plant relationships.
The California Tortoiseshell, West Coast Lady, Red Admiral, and Golden Oak Hairstreak are just a few of the many butterfly species found in the floristically rich San Francisco Bay and Sacramento Valley regions.
This guide synthesizes the most current information available on the pests and environmental conditions that can damage California's conifers, the vast majority of native trees in the state.
Explores the extraordinary variation and plasticity found in all areas of spider behaviour including foraging, web building, communication and courtship.
Explores the extraordinary variation and plasticity found in all areas of spider behaviour including foraging, web building, communication and courtship.
This book brings together scattered information on insect conservation, providing a robust foundation for future progress, using examples from around the world.
Originally published in 2007, this comprehensive book provides a clear, theoretical understanding of pest population dynamics and forest insect outbreaks.
This book, first published in 2005, addresses food-mediated interactions, focusing on how plants employ foods to recruit arthropod ''bodyguards'' as a protection against herbivores.
First published in 2005, this text introduces students and research workers to insect herbivore–host dynamics using the interaction between aphids and trees.
Written by a team of leading international specialists, Behavioral Ecology of Insect Parasitoids examines the optimal behaviors that parasitoids exhibit in order to maximize long term offspring production.