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Book cover: How to Collect and Preserve InsectsHow to Collect and Preserve Insects
by ,
With rather simple equipment, the amateur as well as the trained entomologist can make a worthwhile collection of insects. The book will show how easy it is to make a start in insect collecting and will give the student helpful ideas on how to begin.
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Book cover: The Complex World of AntsThe Complex World of Ants
by - InTech ,
Ants play important roles in natural ecosystems. These eusocial insects are omnivorous feeders and live in a wide variety of habitats. They belong to the order Hymenoptera, and family Formicidae. There are more than 8800 described species ...
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Book cover: Cockroaches: Ecology, Behavior, and Natural HistoryCockroaches: Ecology, Behavior, and Natural History
by - The Johns Hopkins University Press ,
The cockroach is truly an evolutionary wonder. The book explores the fascinating natural history and behavior of cockroaches, describing their various colors, sizes, and shapes, as well as how they move on land, in water, and through the air.
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Book cover: Insect Physiology and EcologyInsect Physiology and Ecology
by - InTech ,
This book discusses recent contributions focusing on insect physiology and ecology written by experts in their fields. It targets a wide audience of general biologists, entomologists, ecologists, zoologists, virologists, and epidemiologists.
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Book cover: Dr. Eleanor's Book of Common AntsDr. Eleanor's Book of Common Ants
by - Your Wild Life ,
Dr. Eleanor is an entomologist with a knack for telling good stories, especially about the secret lives of her favorite insects: the ANTS! In this new guide, Dr. Eleanor delights readers young and old with tales of our tiny insect neighbors.
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Book cover: New Zealand Moths and ButterfliesNew Zealand Moths and Butterflies
by - West, Newman & Co. ,
The present work is intended as a guide to those who desire to collect or study our native Lepidoptera, and also as a book of reference to the general reader. With a few exceptions this book only treats of what are termed the Macro-Lepidoptera.
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Book cover: The Common Spiders of the United StatesThe Common Spiders of the United States
by - Ginn & Co. ,
A small and simple book for readers who want to know a little about spiders in general and especially those species that they often meet with. It is hoped this book will answer the purpose and help to lessen the prejudice against spiders.
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Book cover: Explanation of Terms Used in EntomologyExplanation of Terms Used in Entomology
by - Brooklyn Entomological Society ,
The book is of exceptional historical interest in the insights it gives into development of early modern entomological science. It also is of practical value as a source for terms that are obscure to modern users because they are no longer current.
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Book cover: The Butterfly BookThe Butterfly Book
by - Doubleday, Page & Company ,
The aim is to guide the amateur collector in right paths and to prepare him by the accomplishment of his labors for the enjoyment of more difficult researches in this field. The work is confined to the fauna of the continent of North America.
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Book cover: Our Insect Friends and EnemiesOur Insect Friends and Enemies
by - J.B. Lippincott Company ,
The relation of insects to man, to other animals, to one another, and to plants, with a chapter on the war against insects. The insects' influence upon humanity, directly and indirectly, is vastly greater than is generally realized.
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Book cover: American InsectsAmerican Insects
by - Holt ,
This book provides a general systematic account of all the principal groups of insects as they occur in America, together with special accounts of the structure, physiology, development and metamorphoses of certain particularly interesting insects.
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Book cover: Book of MonstersBook of Monsters
by - National Geographic Society ,
The pictures in this book are portraits of creatures which are as much the real inhabitants of the world as we are, and have all the rights that we have. Because their own struggle for existence so often crosses ours, many of them are our enemies.
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Book cover: Collecting and Preserving Insects and ArachnidsCollecting and Preserving Insects and Arachnids
by - ARC-PPRI ,
A manual for entomology and arachnology. Techniques to collect, process and prepare insects and arachnids for study are presented, as well as important information on how to preserve and curate material in a reference collection.
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Book cover: Butterflies Worth KnowingButterflies Worth Knowing
by - Doubleday, Page & Company ,
In this little book an attempt has been made to discuss the more abundant and widely distributed butterflies of eastern North America from the point of view of their life histories and their relations to their surroundings.
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Book cover: Handbook of Medical EntomologyHandbook of Medical Entomology
by - The Comstock Publishing Company ,
The object of the Handbook is to afford a general survey of the field, and to put the student of medicine and entomology in touch with the discoveries and theories which underlie some of the most important modern work in preventive medicine.
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Book cover: An Elementary Study of InsectsAn Elementary Study of Insects
by - Missouri Book Company ,
Contents: introduction; grasshopper; house fly or typhoid fly; mosquito; cabbage miller; apple worm; tomato or tobacco worm; firefly; white grub or june-bug; Colorado potato beetle; lady-beetle; dragon-fly; squash bug; plant-louse; honey bee; ant.
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Book cover: Insects : Their Ways and Means of LivingInsects : Their Ways and Means of Living
by - Dover ,
Contents: the grasshopper and its cousins, roaches and other ancient insects, ways and means of living, termites, plant lice, the periodical cicada, insect metamorphosis, the caterpillar and the moth, mosquitoes and flies.
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