This is a wide-ranging, expert identification guide to every order of the insect world including fleas, beetles, cockroaches and crickets, as well as many less visible creatures. Identification details are provided for more than 650 insect species, and many are illustrated with specially commissioned watercolours. This book includes an in-depth look at insect defence mechanisms such as camouflage, mimicry, hissing, bites and stings, and colouration that suggests danger. Each stage of the insect life cycle is described with illustrations depicting different development phases. It includes 1000 spectacular photographs and anatomically correct watercolours provide a fascinating visual record of the insect world. This beautifully illustrated book provides an overview of the world of insects. The introduction looks at every aspect of insect life: basic anatomy, life cycles, social organisation, feeding techniques, how insects fly, and the ways in which insects are beneficial to humans. An in-depth look at each of the orders that makes up the insect group, with examples of common species, completes the front section of the book. The majority of the book is an encyclopedia of insects organised geographically and then by insect order. Identification details are provided for each insect, such as body colour and segmentation, shape and size, the habitat where each can be found and the time of year, if appropriate. Differences between male and female species are included as well as changes in appearance at each life stage.
By:
Martin Walters
Imprint: Lorenz Books
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions:
Height: 308mm,
Width: 241mm,
Spine: 23mm
Weight: 1.638kg
ISBN: 9780754819097
ISBN 10: 0754819094
Pages: 256
Publication Date: 30 November 2010
Audience:
General/trade
,
ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Foreword by Gary Steiner Acknowledgments Introduction: The Abolition of Animal Use Versus the Regulation of Animal Treatment Chapter 1. Animals -- Property or Persons? Chapter 2. Reflections on Animals, Property, and the Law and Rain Without Thunder Chapter 3. Taking Sentience Seriously Chapter 4. Equal Consideration and the Interest of Nonhuman Animals in Continued Existence: A Response to Professor Sunstein Chapter 5. The Use of Nonhuman Animals in Biomedical Research: Necessity and Justification Chapter 6. Ecofeminism and Animal Rights: A Review of Beyond Animal Rights: A Feminist Caring Ethic for the Treatment of Animals Chapter 7. Comparable Harm and Equal Inherent Value: The Problem of the Dog in the Lifeboat Reference Guide to Selected Topics
Martin Walters is a writer, editor and naturalist. He studied Zoology at Oxford, and worked for several years as Biological Sciences Editor at Cambridge University Press where he was responsible for developing the botany, ecology and natural history lists, before becoming a freelance editor and writer. He is a keen field naturalist, with a special interest in botany, birds, habitats and conservation.
Reviews for The Illustrated World Encyclopaedia of Insects
Virtually all the articles and essays collected here are milestones in the formation of the modern theory of the legal and moral rights of animals. This collection provides a lucid summary of a significant body of thought on animal rights. -- Julian H. Franklin
