Meticulously Researched And Illustrated With More Than 2000 Color Photographs Taken By The Author, Flies Is A Landmark Reference Book That Will Be Indispensable To Any Naturalist, Biologist Or Entomologist. Most Photographs In This Encyclopedic Reference Were Taken In The Field And Show The Insects In Their Natural Environment. All Of The World's Fly Families Are Included, With Photographic Coverage Spanning The Range From Common Deer Flies And Fruit Flies Through To Deadly Tsetse Flies And Malaria Mosquitoes, With Thousands Of Spectacular Species Such As Exotic Stalk Eyed Flies, Giant Robber Flies And Hedgehog Flies In Between. Flies Is Broken Up Into Three Parts: Life Histories, Habits And Habitats Of Flies; Diversity; And Identifying And Studying Flies. The 20 Pages Of Profusely Illustrated Keys Linked To The Unprecedented Photographic Coverage Of The World's Fly Families And Subfamilies Enable The Reader To Identify Most Flies Quickly And Accurately, And To Readily Access Information About Each Family As Well As Hundreds Of Distinctive Genera And Species--publisher's Description. Machine Generated Contents Note: Pt. 1 Life Histories, Habits And Habitats Of Flies -- Ch. 1 Life Histories Of Flies -- Ch. 2 Flies, Plants And Fungi -- Ch. 3 Flies And Vertebrates -- Ch. 4 Flies And Invertebrates -- Pt. 2 Diversity -- Ch. 5 Origins & Distribution Of The Diptera -- Ch. 6 The Lower Diptera -- Ch. 7 The Lower Brachycera And Empidoidea -- Ch. 8 The Higher Brachycera Or Cyclorrhapha -- Pt. 3 Identifying And Studying Flies -- Ch. 9 Collecting And Preserving Flies -- Ch. 10 Identifying Flies. Stephen A. Marshall. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 597-603) And Index.
Categories:
- Science & Math
- Biological Sciences
- Biology
- Entomology
- Biology
- Biological Sciences
Publisher : Firefly Books
Author : Marshall, Stephen A.
Language : English
Edition : 1st Ed.
Published :2012-08-30
Number Of Pages : 616
Binding : hardcover
ISBN-10 : 1770851003
ISBN-13 : 9781770851009
Item weight : 2.31 lb
Dimensions : 1.8 in x 8.9 in x 11.1 in
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