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| Author | : George McGavin |
| Publisher | : DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley) |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2000 |
| Genre | : Arthropoda |
| ISBN | : 9780789453372 |
Presents photos, descriptions, and information about more than 550 insects and arthropods.
| Author | : Scott Richard Shaw |
| Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
| Total Pages | : 263 |
| Release | : 2014-09-11 |
| Genre | : Nature |
| ISBN | : 022616361X |
Chronicles the evolution of insects and explains how evolutionary innovations have enabled them to disperse widely, occupy narrow niches, and survive global catastrophes. --Publisher's description.
| Author | : Christopher O'Toole |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 248 |
| Release | : 2002 |
| Genre | : Nature |
| ISBN | : |
Authoriative illustrated reference on insects and spiders with contribuing essays by world-renowned scientists.
| Author | : Thomas Eisner |
| Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
| Total Pages | : 385 |
| Release | : 2007-04-30 |
| Genre | : Nature |
| ISBN | : 0674024036 |
Mostly tiny, infinitely delicate, and short-lived, insects and their relatives—arthropods—nonetheless outnumber all their fellow creatures on earth. How lowly arthropods achieved this unlikely preeminence is a story deftly and colorfully told in this follow-up to the award-winning For Love of Insects. Part handbook, part field guide, part photo album, Secret Weapons chronicles the diverse and often astonishing defensive strategies that have allowed insects, spiders, scorpions, and other many-legged creatures not just to survive, but to thrive. In 69 chapters, each brilliantly illustrated with photographs culled from Thomas Eisner’s legendary collection, we meet a largely North American cast of arthropods—as well as a few of their kin from Australia, Europe, and Asia—and observe at firsthand the nature and extent of the defenses that lie at the root of their evolutionary success. Here are the cockroaches and termites, the carpenter ants and honeybees, and all the miniature creatures in between, deploying their sprays and venom, froth and feces, camouflage and sticky coatings. And along with a marvelous bug’s-eye view of how these secret weapons actually work, here is a close-up look at the science behind them, from taxonomy to chemical formulas, as well as an appendix with instructions for studying chemical defenses at home. Whether dipped into here and there or read cover-to-cover, Secret Weapons will prove invaluable to hands-on researchers and amateur naturalists alike, and will captivate any reader for whom nature is a source of wonder.
| Author | : Alain Roques |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2010 |
| Genre | : Arthropoda |
| ISBN | : 9789546425553 |
| Author | : Gary R. Mullen |
| Publisher | : Academic Press |
| Total Pages | : 646 |
| Release | : 2009-04-22 |
| Genre | : Science |
| ISBN | : 0080919693 |
Medical and Veterinary Entomology, Second Edition, has been fully updated and revised to provide the latest information on developments in entomology relating to public health and veterinary importance. Each chapter is structured with the student in mind, organized by the major headings of Taxonomy, Morphology, Life History, Behavior and Ecology, Public Health and Veterinary Importance, and Prevention and Control. This second edition includes separate chapters devoted to each of the taxonomic groups of insects and arachnids of medical or veterinary concern, including spiders, scorpions, mites, and ticks. Internationally recognized editors Mullen and Durden include extensive coverage of both medical and veterinary entomological importance. This book is designed for teaching and research faculty in medical and veterinary schools that provide a course in vector borne diseases and medical entomology; parasitologists, entomologists, and government scientists responsible for oversight and monitoring of insect vector borne diseases; and medical and veterinary school libraries and libraries at institutions with strong programs in entomology. Follows in the tradition of Herm's Medical and Veterinary Entomology The latest information on developments in entomology relating to public health and veterinary importance Two separate indexes for enhanced searchability: Taxonomic and Subject New to this edition: Three new chapters Morphological Adaptations of Parasitic Arthropods Forensic Entomology Molecular Tools in Medical and Veterinary Entomology 1700 word glossary Appendix of Arthropod-Related Viruses of Medical-Veterinary Importance Numerous new full-color images, illustrations and maps throughout
| Author | : M.S. Upton |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 83 |
| Release | : 2010 |
| Genre | : Insects |
| ISBN | : 9780646543376 |
| Author | : Miriam Lehrer |
| Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
| Total Pages | : 420 |
| Release | : 1997-11-18 |
| Genre | : Science |
| ISBN | : 9783764356934 |
The present volume deals with the most fascinating aspects of sensory performance studied in insects, crustaceans and spiders. Arthropods inhabit practically every conceivable ecological niche, and are perfectly adapted to cope with the constraints of their natural habitats. They move on the ground, in water, and in the air. They use visual, olfactory, acoustical, vibratory, and tactile cues for orientation, to recognize and pinpoint their target, their home place, a feeding site, a prey, or a potential mate. Many arthropods use celestial (skylight) and terrestrial (magnetic) compass cues for orientation, and some of them were shown to develop, through experience, oriented behaviours based on a variety of innate, hard-wired orientation mechanisms. In many cases, aspects of behaviour that are involved in orientation cannot be separated from inter- and intraspecific communication. The book brings to the fore the role of communication not only in social and sexual behaviours, but also in the context of oriented locomotion. Top, internationally renowned scientists have contributed to this volume and have succeeded in presenting a book full of highlights which will be of great interest to workers in this field of research. With contributions by F. G. Barth; D. von Helverson, K.-E. Kaissling, W. Kirchner, M. Walker, M. Weissburg, R. Campan, T. Collett, J. Zeil, K. Kirschfeld, R. Wehner, M. Srinivasan, M. Lehrer, R. Gadagkar.
