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Whether you’re an amateur insect enthusiast, a student or an entomologist, this completely revised edition of A Field Guide to Insects in Australia will help you identify insects from all the major groups.

 

With more photographs, species and up-to-date information, A Field Guide to Insects in Australia will enable you to differentiate between a dragonfly and a damselfly or a cricket and a grasshopper. You’ll find cockroaches, termites, praying mantis, beetles, cicadas, moths, butterflies, ants and bees.

 

More than 300 colour photographs show the insects in their natural habitat, while many line drawings clearly illustrate subtle differences where identification is tricky.

 

Table of contents

 

Preface and introduction

What is an insect?

Insect life cycles

Crypsis and mimicry

Collecting insects

Classification and a key to the insect orders

Springtails, proturans and diplurans

Bristletails and silverfish

Mayflies

Dragonflies and damselflies

Stoneflies

Cockroaches

Termites

Mantids

Earwigs

Crickets and grasshoppers

Stick insects and leaf insects

Web-spinners and embeds

Booklice and psocids

Lice

True bugs, hoppers, scale insects and aphids

Thrips

Alderflies and Dobsonflies

Lacewings, Antlions and mantis flies

Beetles

Stylops

Scorpion flies and hanging flies

Fleas

Flies

Caddisflies

Moths and butterflies

Wasps, ant, bees and sawflies

Glossary

Multimedia Bibliography

Index

 

About the authors

 

Paul Zborowski is an entomologist and photographer based in the Wet Tropics World Heritage area of Queensland. He has studies and photographed insect behaviour around the world and now concentrates on maintaining a macro photo collection which can be visited at www.close-up-photolibrary.com.

 

Ross Storey has spent most of the past 32 years making collections of insects for the University of Queensland and the Queensland DPI. He is a recognised world authority on Australian dung beetles and is currently curator of the QDPI’s Mareeba insect collection, one of Australia’s premier collections of tropical insects.