Britain's Insects: A Field Guide to the Insects of Great Britain and Ireland
by Paul D. Brock 
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The go-to photographic guide to all the insect orders of Britain and IrelandBritain's Insects is an innovative, up-to-date, carefully designed and beautifully illustrated field guide to Britain and Ireland's twenty-five insect orders, concentrating on popular groups and species that can be identified in the field. Featuring superb photographs of live insects, the guide covers the key aspects of identification and provides information on status, distribution, seasonality, habitat, food plants show more and behaviour. It also offers insight into the life history of the various insect groups, many of which are truly amazing. This is the go-to guide for entomologists, naturalists, gardeners, wildlife photographers and anyone else interested in insects, whatever their level of knowledge.More than 2,000 stunning photographs, carefully selected to show key identification featuresPhoto guides to families, genera and speciesDesigned to allow easy, accurate comparison of similar speciesUp-to-date distribution maps and charts summarizing adult seasonalityQR codes that link to sound recordings of grasshoppers and cricketsInformation on photographing and recording insects to help conservation show lessTags
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Paul D. Brock is an entomologist and a scientific associate at the Natural History Museum, London. Most at home in the field, he spends much of his time watching and studying insects in great detail in order to learn more about them and to record their behaviour on camera. A renowned author of insect books and a widely published photographer, he show more is a world authority on stick-insects and leaf-insects, with a genus and several species named after him. show less
Paul D. Brock is a LibraryThing Author, an author who lists their personal library on LibraryThing.
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- Britain's Insects: A Field Guide to the Insects of Great Britain and Ireland
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- Genres
- Science & Nature, Nonfiction, Reference, Home & Garden
- DDC/MDS
- 595.70941 — Natural sciences & mathematics Animals Arthropoda; Crabs, Spiders, Insects, Butterflies Insects: Insecta, Hexapoda Insects: Insecta, Hexapoda History, geographic treatment, biography Europe British Isles
- LCC
- QL482 .G8 — Science Zoology Zoology Invertebrates Insects
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- 26
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- (5.00)
- Languages
- English
- Media
- Paper, Ebook
- ISBNs
- 2
