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A Crash Course on How to Get Rid of Crickets Crickets, family Gryllidae (also known as "true crickets"), are insects somewhat related to grasshoppers, and more closely related to katydids or bush crickets (family Tettigoniidae). They have somewhat flattened bodies and long antennae. There...

Butterflies are among the most familiar and popular of all the insects, and butterfly watching makes an absorbing hobby. This handy, compact guide serves as an introduction to East Africa’s amazing butterfly diversity. It introduces 246 of the more common, spectacular and interesting species found in Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, Rwanda and Burundi.

We should thank a pollinator at every meal. These diminutive creatures fertilize a third of the crops we eat. Yet half of the 200,000 species of pollinators are threatened. Birds, bats, insects, and many other pollinators are disappearing, putting our entire food supply in jeopardy. In North America...

Bumblebees are some of our most familiar insects, and are among the few that are almost universally viewed as 'friendly' – their low buzzing is the quintessential sound of our gardens in the summertime. Spotlight Bumblebees considers all 24 UK bumblebee species, examining what made the group so...

A Crash Course on How to Get Rid of Gnats A gnat (play /ˈnæt/) is any of many species of tiny flying insects in the Dipterid suborder Nematocera, especially those in the families Mycetophilidae, Anisopodidae and Sciaridae. Male gnats often assemble in large mating swarms or ghosts,...

A Crash Course on How to Get Rid of House Flies The housefly (also house fly, house-fly or common housefly), Musca domestica, is a fly of the Cyclorrhapha suborder. It is the most common of all domestic flies, accounting for about 90% of all flies in human habitations, and indeed one of...

This book gathered works to understand slavery from a study of the behavior of the workers of ants. The bearing on the origin of slavery of the obvious and fundamental fact that there is a double ontogeny and phylogeny in social organisms, namely, one of the colony as well as one of the individual,...

We are all fascinated by, and often wary of, the tiny animals that creep and crawl in our gardens or lurk in the dark corners of our homes, but how much do we really know about insects and their relatives? Nick Baker's Bug Book aims to encourage our understanding of all types of bugs by providing...

In The Amazing Monarch, author and photographer Windle Turley chronicles the life cycle of the monarch butterfly. Replete with page after page of full-color photographs, the book shows the monarch's rarely captured destination wintering grounds. The contrast of the orange and black pops off the page...

Martin has been photographing wildlife for over forty years.  Although he likes all creatures, Martin has a  particular interest in insects and has long been amazed;  both by their fragility, and  by their amazing strength.   Whilst out with his camera, Martin has noticed how some people...

This book is a Creative Commons work accompanying a York University Toronto MA Interdisciplinary thesis on the transition of the book from print to digital. The subject of the book is bees. Bees was chosen as a symbol of the cooperative behaviour of social insects whose existence is currently threatened...

On any warm summer day, you can easily observe damselflies around a vegetated pond or the rocks along the banks of a stream. Like the more familiar dragonfly, damselflies are among the most remarkably distinctive insects in their appearance and biology, and they have become one of the most popular...

We live in an unknown world. Many people think we are quite aware of what is going on on planet Earth, but this is not true. Indeed, we probably just have a basic knowledge of the organisms that live in this planet with us. We do not know much about how they feed, how they perceive their surroundings...

A Crash Course on How to Get Rid of Mosquitoes Mosquitoes undergo four distinct life cycle stages: egg, larval, pupal and adult. The length of the first three stages varies by species and depends upon environmental conditions. Some mosquitoes have a life span of only four days, while others...