Parasitic insects.
London: Heinemann Educational Books, 1971. Octavo, text illustrations, very good copy in dustwrapper. More
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Cuckoo: cheating by nature.
London: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2015. Octavo, dustwrapper, colour photographs, line drawings. Beloved by people as the herald of spring, for many birds the cuckoo is a signal of doom. Known for being a notorious cheat, cuckoos across the world have evolved extraordinary tricks to manipulate other species into raising their young..... More
New Guinea tapeworms and Jewish grandmothers: tales of parasites and people.
New York: Norton, (1987. second edition). Octavo, paperback. More
The role of the trypanosomiases in African ecology: a study of Tsetse-Fly problem.
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1971. Quarto, graphs, maps, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
Parasites and diseases of wild birds in Florida.
Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2002. Octavo, black and white photographs, other illustrations. Organized by the host species of bird rather than by the disease agent, each chapter is preceded by an introduction discussing the population and survival status of the bird or group. Appropriate reviews and bibliographies are noted..... More
Parasitoids: behavioral and evolutionary ecology.
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1994. Octavo, illustrations, fine copy in dustwrapper. After a general introduction to parasitoid natural history and taxonomy, the first part of the book treats the different components of the reproductive strategy of parasitoids: searching for a host, host selection, clutch size, and the sex ratio. Subsequent..... More
Biodiversity and insect pests: key issues for sustainable management.
London: John Wiley and Sons, 2012. Octavo, black and white photographs, line drawings, laminated boards with worn corners. Biodiversity offers great potential for managing insect pests. It provides resistance genes and anti-insect compounds; a huge range of predatory and parasitic natural enemies of pests; and community ecology-level effects operating at..... More
Dwarf mistletoes: biology, pathology, and systematics.
Washington D C: United States Department of Agriculture, 1996. Quarto, laminated boards, colour photographs, maps, fine copy. Agriculture Handbook 709. More
The avian brood parasites: deception at the nest.
New York: Oxford University Press, 1997. Octavo, illustrations, laminated boards. Discusses all of the world's nearly 100 species of obligatory brood parasites - those birds that reproduce only by laying their eggs in the nests of other species - and the ecological and evolutionary aspects of this remarkable behavioural adaptation..... More
Keys to the Trematoda, volume two.
London: Cabi publishing, 2005. Octavo, laminated boards, line drawings. The second of three volumes presenting a detailed revision of the systematics and taxonomy of the platyhelminth class Trematoda, subclasses Aspidogastrea and Digenea, with key for the identification of these parasites at the superfamily, family, subfamily and generic levels. The trematodes..... More
Some ectoparasites of the birds of Asia.
Bangkok: Applied Scientific Research Corporation of Thailand, 1973. Quarto, some wear. More
Fauna of New Zealand Number 17: Mymaridae (Insecta: Hymenoptera) - introduction, and review of genera.
Lincoln: Manaaki Whenua Press, 1989. Octavo, text illustrations, softcover. More
Cowbirds and other brood parasites.
Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1998. Octavo, illustrations, fine copy in dustwrapper. The authors summarises the information on cowbirds that has appeared since the publication of Friedmann's classic 1929 monograph on these birds. More
A catalogue of the Nearctic Chalcidoidea of Czechoslovakia (Insecta: Hymenoptera).
Ottawa: Entomological Society of Canada, 1963. Octavo, Binder's cloth, inscribed by the author to Edgar Riek. The Canadian Entomologist, Supplement Number 30. More
Evolutionary ecology of parasites.
Princeton: Princeton University Press, (2007. second edition). Small quarto, paperback, text illustrations and diagrams. Parasites have evolved independently in numerous animal lineages, and they now make up a considerable proportion of the biodiversity of life. Not only do they impact humans and other animals in fundamental ways, but in recent..... More
African queens and their kin: a Darwinian odyssey.
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
Helminths, arthropods and protozoa of domesticated animals.
London: Baillière Tindall, 1982. seventh edition). Quarto, text illustrations, laminated boards. More
Animal partners and parasites.
Newton Abbot: David & Charles, 1975. Octavo, text illustrations. Good copy in dustwrapper. More
Dangerous creatures of Africa.
Struik Publishers, 2009. Quarto, laminated boards, colour photographs, maps. With sensational photography this book documents the range of dangerous and threatening aspects of nature -animals that can wound, venomous animals, those that are poisonous to eat and diseases caused by animals. The focus is on understanding, identifying, avoiding and surviving..... More
The biological control of an insect in Fiji: an account of the coconut leaf-mining beetle and its parasite complex.
London: The Imperial Institute of Entomology, 1937. Octavo, uncoloured plates, text illustrations. Publisher's cloth, personal inscription from author, minor foxing, a good copy. More
Origin and evolution of parasitism in hymenoptera parasitica and development of their fauna in the USSR.
Jerusalem: Israel Program for Scientific Translations, [1969. reprint). Octavo, text illustrations, maps, dustwrapper. Translated from Russian. More
The Coconut Moth in Fiji: a history of its control by means of parasites.
London: Imperial Bureau of Entomology, 1930. Plain paper. 34 plates, text illustrations, map, signed by a contributiong author for John Evans. More
An annotated catalog of the type material of Aphytis (Hymenoptera: Aphelinidae) in the Entomology Research Museum, University of California at Riverside.
Berkeley: University of California Press, 2008. Octavo, softcover. Provides information on 75 valid species of parasitic wasps. More
Mistletoes of southern Australia.
Melbourne: CSIRO Publishing, (2019. second edition), Quarto, paperback, colour illustrations. Mistletoes are an enigmatic group of plants. Lacking roots and depending on other plants for their livelihood, they have inspired a range of beliefs throughout the world. Some people regard them as being endowed with magical properties, others as destructive..... More
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