Miniature Lives: Identifying Insects in Your Home and Garden

ISBN-13: 9781486301379 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 344 str.

Michelle Gleeson

Opis

Miniature Lives provides a range of simple strategies that people can use to identify and learn more about the insects in their Australian homes and gardens. Featuring a step-by-step, illustrated identification key and color photographs, the book guides the reader through the basics of entomology. Simple explanations, amusing analogies and quirky facts convey information on diet, life cycle, habitat and risks in a way that is both interesting and easy to understand. Identifying an insect using field guides or internet searches can be daunting - Miniature Lives allows the reader to identify an insect without having to capture or touch it.

* Provides a range of simple strategies that people can use to identify and learn more about the insects in their homes and gardens
* Enables the reader to assess if the insect is beneficial or harmful to their family, pets, home or garden
* Assists the reader to identify an insect without having to capture or touch it.