A field guide to insects in Australia 2nd edition By Paul Zborowski and Ross Storey ISBN 18763344967, published in 2003 by Reed New Holland, colour, soft cover, 208 pages Price $A32.95 plus $A11 postage within Australia, overseas postage please request a quote

A book to help you identify insects from all the major insect groups with more than 250 colour photographs showing insects in their natural habitat. Line drawings clearly illustrate subtle differences when identification is tricky.

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.

Table of contents

• Acknowledgements
• Preface
• Introduction
• Part 1 - What is an insect? - Insect life cycles - Crypsis and mimicry - Collecting insects - Classification and a key to the insect orders
• Part 2 - The pseudo insects: the Entognatha [springtails, proturans, diplurans] - Class Insecta: the Apterygota [bristletails and silverfish] - Class Insecta: the Pterygota [mayflies; dragonflies and damselflies; stoneflies; cockroaches; termites; praying mantids; earwigs; crickets and grasshoppers; stick insects and leaf insects; web spinners and embiids; booklice and psocids; lice; true bugs, hoppers, scale insects and aphids; thrips; alderflies and dobsonflies; lacewings, antlions, mantis flies; beetles; stylopids; scorpion flies and hanging flies; fleas; flies; caddisflies; moths and butterflies; wasps, ants, bees and sawflies
• Glossary
• Multimedia bibliography
• Index