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National Wildlife Federation field guide to insects and spiders & related species of North America
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Publisher
Sterling Pub
Publication Date
[2007]
Language
English
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Introduction --
Insects, spiders, and people --
Scope and arrangement of this guide --
Classification --
What is an insect? --
The body plan of insects and entognaths --
Growth and development of entognaths and insects --
Metamorphosis --
Synopsis of North American hexapod orders --
Class entognatha --
Class insecta --
What is a spider? --
The body plan of spiders --
Synopsis of common North American arachnid orders --
Other arthropods --
Myriapoda : centipedes, millipedes, and kin --
Crustacea : crayfish, shrimps, pillbugs, and kin --
Natural history of insects, spiders, and their kin --
Feeding behavior --
Defense behavior --
Conserving the silent majority --
Finding insects, spiders, and their kin --
Where to look --
Making an identification --
About the guide --
Entognaths --
Proturans (order Protura) --
Springtails (order Collembola) --
Diplurans (order Diplura) --
Insects --
Jumping bristletails (order Microcoryphia) --
Silverfish and firebrats (order Thysanura) --
Mayflies (order Ephemeroptera) --
Dragonflies and damselflies (order Odonata) --
Cockroaches (order Blattodea) --
Termites (order Isoptera).
Mantids (order Mantodea) --
Rockcrawlers (order Grylloblattodea) --
Earwigs (order Dermaptera) --
Stoneflies (order Plecoptera) --
Grasshoppers, crickets, and katydids (order Orthoptera) --
Stick insects (order Phasmida) --
Webspinners (order Embioptera) --
Zorapterans (order Zoraptera) --
Barklice and booklice (order Psocoptera) --
Chewing and sucking lice (order Phthiraptera) --
True bugs, cicadas, hoppers, and kin (order Hemiptera) --
Thrips (order Thysanoptera) --
Dobsonflies, fishflies, and alderflies (order Megaloptera) --
Snakeflies (order Raphidioptera) --
Antlions, lacewings, mantidflies, and owlflies (order Neuroptera) --
Beetles (order Coleoptera) --
Twisted-winged parasites (order Strepsiptera) --
Scorpionflies and hangingflies (order Mecoptera) --
Fleas (order Siphonaptera) --
Flies (order Diptera) --
Caddisflies (order Trichoptera) --
Butterflies and moths (order Lepidoptera) --
Ants, bees, and wasps (order Hymenoptera) --
Arachnids --
Spiders (order Araneae) --
Harvestmen (order Opiliones) --
Scorpions (order Scorpiones).
Pseudoscorpions (order Pseudoscorpiones) --
Windscorpions (order Solifugae) --
Tailless whipscorpions (order Amblypygi) --
Whipscorpions (order Uropygi) --
Ticks and mites (order Acari) --
Other arthropods --
Centipedes (Class Chilopoda) --
Millipedes (class Diplopoda) --
Fairy, brine, tadpole and clam shrimps, and water fleas (class Branchiopoda) --
Malacostracans (class Malacostraca) --
How-to guides --
Starting an insect and spider collection --
Keeping insects and spiders in captivity --
Planting an arthropod garden --
Macrophotography --
Appendices --
Acknowledgments --
Staff for this guide --
Illustration sources --
Photo credits --
Glossary --
Pronunciation guide --
Orders of arthropods in North America --
Endangered and threatened insects and arachnids --
Insect zoos and butterfly houses --
Resources and references --
Index.
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9781402741531
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