Field guide to insects in Australia 3rd edition by Paul Zborowski and Ross Storey Published in 2010 by Reed New Holland, 304 pages Price $35.00 plus $A12 postage within Australia [up to 3 kg], overseas postage please request a quote ISBN 9781877069659

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
• Beeltles
• 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.