Miniature lives : identifying insects in your home and garden / Michelle Gleeson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gleeson, Michelle, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Insects--Life cycles.

Insects.

Insects--Identification--Handbooks, manuals, etc.

Insect pests--Identification--Handbooks, manuals, etc.

Insect pests.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (345 p.)

Place of Publication:

Clayton, Victoria : CSIRO Publishing, 2016.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

An easy-to-use identification guide to Australian insects in your home and garden.

Contents:

Miniature Lives; Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgements; About the author; 1 Introduction; Why I wrote this book; Approaches to identifying insects; How to use this book; 2 Insect basics; What is an insect?; Insect body parts; Taxonomy - how insects are named; Insect Orders - how insects are grouped; Insect growth and lifecycles; 3 Morphology - what insects look like; Using this chapter; Tips for getting started; Tools of the trade; The identification key; The little guys - insects less than 5 mm long; Maggots, grubs and caterpillars; 4 Habitat - where insects live and occur; Using this chapter

Tips for getting startedKitchen and pantry; Living room; Bathroom; Bedroom; Around lights; In water; Soil, leaf litter and compost; On trees and shrubs; On citrus trees; In the vegetable garden; On native trees and shrubs; In and around the lawn; In and around flowers; On the bodies of animals - the bloodsuckers; In large groups - masses and migrations; 5 Clever clues - the strange structures and evidence that insects leave behind; Using this chapter; Tips for getting started; Choose the clue; Markings on leaves and bark; Lumps and bumps on plants; Nests and hideouts; Cocoons, cases and eggs

6 Insect OrdersHow to use this chapter; Bees, wasps, ants and sawflies - Order Hymenoptera; Beetles - Order Coleoptera; Booklice - Order Psocoptera; Butterflies and moths - Order Lepidoptera; Butterflies and moths - Order Lepidoptera; Cockroaches - Order Blattodea; Dragonflies and damselflies - Order Odonata; Earwigs - Order Dermaptera; Fleas - Order Siphonaptera; Flies - Order Diptera; Grasshoppers and crickets - Order Orthoptera; Lacewings - Order Neuroptera; Lice - Order Phthiraptera; Praying mantids - Order Mantodea; Silverfish - Order Thysanura; Stick and leaf insects - Order Phasmatodea

Termites - Order IsopteraThrips - Order Thysanoptera; True bugs - Order Hemiptera; Non-insect arthropods; Glossary; Pronunciation guide; Bibliography; Further reading; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781486301393

1486301398

9781486301386

148630138X