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 York: Norton, (1987. second edition). Octavo, paperback. More
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
London: John Wiley and Sons, 2012. Octavo, laminated boards, black and white photographs, line drawings. 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 the local and..... More
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
Washington D C: United States Department of Agriculture, 1996. Quarto, laminated boards, colour photographs, maps, fine copy. Agriculture Handbook 709. More
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
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
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012. Octavo, paperback, illustrations, maps. Acanthocephalans, or spiny-headed worms, are endoparasites found in almost all marine, freshwater and terrestrial systems. They infect a huge range of definitive and intermediate hosts during their life cycles, including both vertebrates and arthropods. This volume, first published in 2006, examines..... More
Lincoln: Manaaki Whenua Press, 1989. Octavo, text illustrations, softcover. More
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. More
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
Ottawa: Entomological Society of Canada, 1963. Octavo, Binder's cloth, inscribed by the author to Edgar Riek. The Canadian Entomologist, Supplement Number 30. More
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
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
Newton Abbot: David & Charles, 1975. Octavo, text illustrations. Good copy in dustwrapper. More
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
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
Jerusalem: Israel Program for Scientific Translations, [1969. reprint). Octavo, text illustrations, maps, dustwrapper. Translated from Russian. More
London: Imperial Bureau of Entomology, 1930. Plain paper. 34 plates, text illustrations, map, signed by a contributiong author for John Evans. More
Berkeley: University of California Press, 2008. Octavo, softcover. Provides information on 75 valid species of parasitic wasps. More
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