Field Guide to the Dragonflies of Britain and Europe

Klaas-Douwe B Dijkstra

Identification guide to all resident and migrant dragonflies and damselflies in Europe, from the Arctic to the Sahara, including western Turkey, Cyprus, Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, and the Azores, Canaries and Madeira. Illustrated by Richard Lewington. More...

hardcover | 2006 | #159517 | £30.00
softcover | 2006 | #159516 | £21.95

Spider Families of the World

R Jocqu‚ and AS Dippenaar-Schoeman

This book provides a concise overview and descriptions of the 107 spider families that are presently recognized. This comprehensive book includes illustrated keys to the families, their diagnostic and descriptive characters, notes on their taxonomic position, and their lifestyles and distribution, a key to spider webs, a series of photographs of living spiders and a general phylogeny of spiders with a list of the main diagnostic characters for each clade. More...

hardcover | 2006 | #161698 | £37.00

Bumblebees

Ted Benton

A detailed and up-to-date account of the behaviour and ecology of bumblebees.

New Naturalist - Bumblebees is a new addition to the popular New Naturalist series, and is written by Ted Benton, who has combined 15 years of his own field studies of the species with all the latest research and findings, to provide a detailed and comprehensive account of the lives of the 25 species of bumblebee found throughout the UK. More...

hardcover | 2006 | #152973 | £45.00

Discover Butterflies in Britain

David E Newland

The aim of this book is to help readers discover butterflies, and the beautiful and interesting places which the book describes will lead not only to butterflies but to the British countryside at its best.

There are photographs and short descriptions of every butterfly separately, with historical information about dates of discovery and name changes over the years. There is also a gazetteer with an extended list of butterfly reserves, a bibliography, and a list of relevant web sites. More...

hardcover | 2006 | #160502 | £19.95

World Butterflies

Bernard d'Abrera

This book is a handy guide to the identification of the True Butterflies (Papilionoidea) of the world at least to genus level. It is a condensed version of the Concise Atlas of Butterflies of the World (published in 2001) and all known butterfly families are represented.

Beautifully produced, this book is an indispensable quick reference for any serious butterfly enthusiast. More...

softcover | 2006 | #157040 | £18.50

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