Miniature Lives: Identifying Insects in Your Home and Garden - Softcover

Gleeson, Michelle

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1486301371 ISBN 13: 9781486301379

Publisher: CSIRO Publishing, 2016

Synopsis

We can’t avoid insects. They scurry past us in the kitchen, pop up in our gardens, or are presented to us in jars by inquisitive children. Despite encountering them on a daily basis, most people don’t know an aphid from an antlion, and identifying an insect using field guides or internet searches can be daunting.

Miniature Lives provides a range of simple strategies that people can use to identify and learn more about the insects in their homes and gardens. Featuring a step-by-step, illustrated identification key and detailed illustrations and colour photographs, the book guides the reader through the basics of entomology (the study of insects). Simple explanations, amusing analogies and quirky facts describe where insects live, how they grow and protect themselves, the clues they leave behind and their status as friend or foe in a way that is both interesting and easy to understand.

Gardeners, nature lovers, students, teachers, and parents and grandparents of bug-crazed kids will love this comprehensive guide to the marvellous diversity of insects that surrounds us and the miniature lives they lead.

About this title

About the Author

Michelle Gleeson is an entomologist and since 2005 has operated her own business, Bugs Ed., which educates around 10 000 people across Queensland, Australia each year on the wonderful world of insects. She is also an Adjunct Industry Fellow at The University of Queensland’s School of Biological Sciences, collaborating on field research projects and outreach programs. Through her work, she takes complex concepts of entomology and conveys them to people in a way that is interesting, insightful and easily understood.

Edition details

• Publisher: CSIRO Publishing
• Publication date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1486301371
• ISBN 13: 9781486301379
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 344