American insects: a handbook of the insects of America north of Mexico.
New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold Company, (1985. Quarto, photographs, text illustrations, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
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Britain's hoverflies: an introduction to the hoverflies of Britain and Ireland.
Princeton: Princeton University Press/WILDGuides, 2012. Octavo, paperback, colour photographs, maps. A beautifully illustrated photographic field guide to all the genera of hoverflies found in Britain, focusing on the species most likely to be identified. Accessible and designed to appeal to a wide audience, the book contains more than 500 remarkable..... More
Butterflies of the world.
London: Abrams, 2006. Quarto, dustwrapper, colour photographs. A photographic book on butterflies and moths. It captures the metamorphosis from caterpillar to winged adults as well as the vast diversity of butterflies. More
The butterfly isles: a summer in search of our Emperors and Admirals.
London: Granta, 2010. Octavo, dustwrapper, colour illustrations. Butterflies animate our summers but the 59 butterfly species of the British Isles can be surprisingly elusive. Some bask unseen at the top of trees in London parks; others lurk at the bottom of damp bogs in Scotland. A few survive for months..... More
The butterfly isles: a summer in search of our Emperors and Admirals.
London: Granta, 2011. Octavo, paperback, colour photographs. Butterflies animate our summers but the 59 butterfly species of the British Isles can be surprisingly elusive. Some bask unseen at the top of trees in London parks; others lurk at the bottom of damp bogs in Scotland. A few survive for months..... More
Royal Entomological Society book of British insects.
London: John Wiley and Sons, 2011. Quarto, laminated boards, colour photographs. This book is the only modern systematic account of all 558 families of British insects, covering not just the large and familiar groups that are included in popular books, but even the smallest and least known. It is beautifully..... More
Cockroaches: ecology, behavior and natural history.
Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007. Quarto, dustwrapper, black and white photographs, line drawings. The cockroach is truly an evolutionary wonder. This definitive volume provides a complete overview of suborder Blattaria, highlighting the diversity of these amazing insects in their natural environments. Beginning with a foreword by E. O. Wilson..... More
A naturalist's guide to the butterflies of Great Britain and Northern Europe.
Oxford: John Beaufoy Publishing, 2017. Octavo, paperback, colour photographs. This easy-to-use, fully comprehensive identification guide to the 158 butterflies found in Britain, Ireland, Scandinavia, Belgium, Netherlands and the Baltics is perfect for amateur naturalists. High-quality photographs are accompanied by detailed species descriptions, which include common and scientific name, wingspan, distribution..... More
Earwig's tail: a modern bestiary of multi-legged legends.
Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press, 2009. Octavo, dustwrapper, line drawings. Throughout the Middle Ages, enormously popular bestiaries presented people with descriptions of rare and unusual animals, typically paired with a moral or religious lesson. The real and the imaginary blended seamlessly in these books - at the time, the existence..... More
The Xerces Society gardening for butterflies: how you can attract and protect beautiful, beneficial insects.
Portland OR: Timber Press, 2016. Octavo, paperback, colour photographs and illustrations. Can gardening change the world? It certainly can when it comes to butterflies. Butterflies are in danger, but everyone who has a garden can do their part to make a difference. Gardening for Butterflies is an optimistic call to..... More
Bolton's catalogue of the ants of the world, 1758-2005.
Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press, 2007. CD-ROM, Barry Bolton's "New General Catalogue of the Ants of the World", published in 1995, was the first attempt in more than one hundred years to collect all taxonomic decisions for ants worldwide, including extinct as well as extant taxa. One reviewer said of..... More
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Oeuvres D'Histoire Naturelle et de Philosphie [first three volumes only]
Chez Samuel Fauche, 1779. Octavo, four uncoloured engraved plates. Original papered boards with handwritten labels, all edges uncut. Complete in twelve volumes. Charles Bonnet 1720-1793), naturalist and philosopher, discovered parthenogenetic reproduction in aphids and observed insects respiration through their spiracles. More
A guide to lanternflies of Borneo.
Kota Kinabalu: Natural History Publications, 2017. Octavo, dustwrapper, colour photographs. Borneo, one of the world’s most exciting biodiversity hotspots, is renowned for its spectacular species richness residing in evergreen tropical rain forests, home also to a myriad of insects, including the lanternflies. Thus far, just 34 taxa are known from..... More
The complete field guide to butterflies of Australia.
Melbourne: CSIRO Publishing, (2016. second edition). Octavo, paperback, colour photographs, other illustrations, maps. As biologically fascinating as they are beautiful, butterflies are a pleasure to watch and an important group of invertebrates to study. In the twelve years since the first edition, the volume of discoveries and changes in information..... More
Field guide to grasshoppers, katydids, and crickets of the United States.
Ithaca: Comstock, 2004. Octavo, paperback, colour plates, text illustrations, maps. This field guide introduces readers to the biology, behaviour, and ecological significance of one of the most obvious (abundant, large, and colorful) and important (ecologically and economically significant) insect groups in North America, the order Orthoptera. A simple, illustrated identification..... More
Collins complete guide to British insects: a photographic guide to every common species.
London: Harper Collins Publishers, 2005. Octavo, paperback, colour photographs. A photographic field guide to 1,500 species of insects found in Britain and Ireland. More
A field guide to the insects of Britain and northern Europe.
Glasgow: Harper Collins Publishers, (2003. third edition). Octavo, laminated boards, colour plates, text illustrations. Includes a general introduction to insects. For each order, there is an introduction to key features and details of biology, and a further key to the insect families. The 60 colour plates illustrate 778 commonly found..... More
Atlas of Drosophila morphology: wild-type and classical mutants.
London: Elsevier Science Publishers, 2013. Quarto, spirally bound, colour photographs. The guide every Drosophila researcher wished they had when first learning genetic markers, and the tool they wish they had now as a handy reference in their lab research. Previously, scientists had only poor-quality images or sketches to work with..... More
RSPB spotlight: bumblebees.
London: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2017. Octavo, paperback, colour photographs. This book considers all 24 bumblebee species found in the UK, examining what made the group so successful and how circumstances have led to the survival of some species but the precipitous decline of the majority, highlighting the dangers we all face..... More
Preliminary keys for the identification of Australian Trichoptera larvae of the family Hydropsychidae.
Albury: Co-operative Research Centre for Freshwater Ecology, 1999. Quarto, spirally bound, text illustrations. Identification guide no. 22. More
Bees of Australia: a photographic exploration.
Melbourne: CSIRO Publishing, 2018. Octavo, paperback, colour photographs. Bees of Australia introduces some of our incredible native bees, many of which, if you look closely, can be found in your own garden. Open this book wherever you like or read it from cover to cover. The combination of photography and..... More
Butterflies of Britain and Ireland: a field and site guide.
London: A & C Black, 2010. Octavo, paperback, colour photographs, maps. Britain and Ireland host only a modest 58 species of resident butterflies, with a few more recorded as vagrants. This superb monograph covers every species in detail. The comprehensive species accounts cover key topics such as identification, variation, habitat..... More
Insect theatre.
London: Black Dog Publishing, 2013. Octavo, paperback, colour photographs. The result of photographer and lecturer Tim Edgar's three-year project examining the insect life in his home through a close-up lens. With macro photography Edgar is able to capture the fragile nature of the insects and the conflict in the chaotic..... More
Field guide to the bumblebees of Great Britain and Ireland.
Gillingham: Ocelli, (2013. revised edition). Small octavo, paperback, colour photographs, maps. 29 species are described with colour photographs of both sexes plus life history. More
Field guide to the ants of New England.
New Haven: Yale University Press, 2012. Octavo, paperback, colour photographs, black and white illustrations, maps. Detailing over 140 ant species that are found in the northeastern U.S. and eastern Canada, this book is the first guide for this area dedicated solely to ants. Lavishly illustrated with over 500 line illustrations..... More