Collingwood: CSIRO Publishing, 2010. Octavo, paperback, colour photographs. Explores this diverse group of insects from the family Tettigoniidae, which comprises more than 1000 species in Australia, including Norfolk and Lord Howe islands. It highlights their relationships to plants, humans and the environment, and includes colour photographs of many species. Australian..... More
New York: St Martin's Press, 2013. Octavo, dustwrapper, black and white photographs and illustrations. In looking at cicadas, as well as other humming, clicking, and thrumming insects, this book considers the radical notion that humans got our idea of rhythm, synchronization, and dance from the world of insect sounds that..... More
Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2016. Octavo, dustwrapper, colour photographs. Entomologist Justin O. Schmidt is on a mission to compare the impacts of stinging insects on humans, mainly using himself as the gauge. In this book, the colourful Dr Schmidt takes us on a journey inside the lives of stinging..... More
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, (2015. reprint). Octavo, paperback, black and white photographs, illustrations. Skittering figures of urban legend - and a ubiquitous reality - cockroaches are nearly as abhorred as they are ancient. Even as our efforts to exterminate them have developed into ever more complex forms of chemical..... More
Princeton: Princeton University Press, (2014. reprint). Octavo, paperback, black and white illustrations. Originally published in 1985. This book presents honeybees as a model system for investigating advanced social life among insects from an evolutionary perspective. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print..... More
Kota Kinabalu: Natural History Publications, 2005. Small octavo, paperback, colour photographs. This small guide contains full colour photographs allowing readers to easily identify stick and leaf insects of Peninsular Malaysia and Singapore. Breeding is also simplified by the listing of known food plants. This excellent book is essential for all..... More
Kota Kinabalu: Natural History Publications, 2016. Large octavo, dustwrapper, colour photographs, text illustrations. The culmination of a lifetime’s work, this beautifully produced monograph of Bornean Phasmids is the most up-to-date guide to all 337 known species or subspecies of phasmid that a reader is likely to come across in Borneo..... More
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2014. Octavo, dustwrapper, photographs. This book provides a sweeping account of insects' evolution from their humble arthropod ancestors into the bugs we know today. Leaving no stone unturned, Shaw explores how evolutionary innovations such as small body size, wings, metamorphosis, and parasitic behavior have enabled..... More
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014. Octavo, paperback, colour photographs, graphs. Insects display an astounding diversity of mating and social behaviours. Studying these systems provides meaningful insights into a wide range of evolutionary and behavioural questions, such as the evolution of sex, sexual selection, sexual conflict, and parental care. This edited..... More
Forest Row: Clairview Books, 2011. Octavo, paperback, colour photographs. In autumn 2006 an unnerving phenomenon hit the United States: honeybees were mysteriously disappearing from hives across the nation, with beekeepers reporting losses of between 30 and 90 per cent of their entire colonies. The problem soon spread to parts of..... More
London: John Wiley and Sons, 2011. Quarto, laminated boards, iIllustrations. This book describes the evolutionary and ecological consequences of reproductive competition for scarabaeine Dung beetles. As well as giving us insight into the private lives of these fascinating insects, this book shows how dung beetles can be used as model..... More
Collingwood: CSIRO Publishing, 2013. Quarto, laminated boards, colour photographs. The first volume of a three volume set, this book provides a general introduction to the Australian Cerambycidae with sections on biology, phylogeny and morphology of adult and larvae, followed by the keys to the subfamilies and an overview of the..... More
Collingwood: CSIRO Publishing, 2016. Quarto, laminated boards, colour photographs. This second volume of a three on Australian longhorn beetles covers the taxonomy of genera of the Cerambycinae, with comments on natural history and morphology. One hundred and forty-two Cerambycinae genera are diagnosed and described, an illustrated key to their identification..... More
Melbourne: CSIRO Publishing, 2019. Quarto, laminated boards, photographs, black and white illustrations, line drawings. The second in what will be a three-volume series presenting a comprehensive treatment of the beetles of Australia, a relatively under-studied fauna including many unusual and unique lineages found nowhere else in the world. Volume two..... More
Melbourne: CSIRO Publishing, 2020. Quarto, laminated boards, colour photographs, maps. True ladybirds, classified in the tribe Coccinellini, are easily recognisable by their relatively large and shiny bodies and contrasting colour patterns. They are one of the most widely studied groups of beetles, being of economic importance and used as model..... More
New York: Mark Batty Publisher, 2011. Octavo, laminated boards, colour illustrations. This is a fun, illustrated introduction to the omnipresent cockroach. The worlds city dwellers, especially in places like Manhattan, grow accustomed to having several hundred uninvited house guests in their homes at all times: cockroaches. Slinking in the shadowy..... More
Harpenden: Brambleby Books, 2014. Octavo, laminated boards, colour photographs, illustrations, maps, graphs, tables. The African Queen is one of the world's commonest butterflies, principally in Africa and Asia. The book concerns its lifecycle and ecology, behaviour, genetics, host preferences, parasites and migration, and especially its phylogeny and evolution. This is..... More
Paterson: Department of Primary Industries, 2020. Quarto, paperback, colour photographs. This AgGuide is a practical guide for beekeepers and includes chapters on honey bee colonies, flora, nutrition, orchard design and managment. More
London: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2015. Octavo, dustwrapper, colour photographs. Full of amazing close up photography, this book illustrates some of the dramatic transformations insects undergo in their life cycles and explore why evolution has arrived at these remarkable solutions to survival. The book is divided into two main sections: Insects that..... More
Oxford: Blackwell Scientific Publications, (2008. second edition). Quarto, paperback, colour photographs and illustrations. Provides a balanced treatment of the theory and practice of pure and applied insect ecology. Suitable for general readers, professionals, and students of varying levels, this work offers coverage of physiological, genetic, molecular, and ecosystem aspects of..... More
Albury: Co-operative Research Centre for Freshwater Ecology, 2000. Quarto, spirally bound, photographs, text illustrations. Identification guide no. 30. More
Lincoln: Manaaki Whenua Press, 2001. Octavo, paperback, illustrations, maps. More
London: Harper Collins Publishers, 2016. Octavo, paperback, colour photographs. A comprehensive and fully illustrated guide, this book is the definitive photographic reference for anyone interested in butterflies and moths found in Britain and Ireland. Every species that occurs regularly in Britain and Ireland is included, along with a section dealing..... More
Albury: Co-operative Research Centre for Freshwater Ecology, 2002. Quarto, spirally bound, tables, maps. Identification guide no. 41. More
Albury: Co-operative Research Centre for Freshwater Ecology, 1999. Quarto, spirally bound, text illustrations. Identification guide no. 23. More