The Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Insects and SpidersAn extensive use of color photographs makes this a fine guide for identifying insects. Spiders, bugs, moths, butterflies, beetles, bees, flies, dragonflies, grasshoppers, and many other insects are detailed in more than 700 full-color photographs visually arranged by shape and color. Descriptive text includes measurements, diagnostic details, and information on habitat, range, feeding habits, sounds or songs, flight period, web construction, life cycle, behaviors, folklore, and environmental impact. An illustrated key to the insect orders and detailed drawings of the parts of insects, spiders, and butterflies supplement this extensive coverage. |
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... British Columbia . Food : Adult eats flying insects . Naiad preys on small aquatic insects and worms . Life Cycle : Female drops her eggs in swift water of riffles . Naiads stay among trash along edges . Adults are active late April in ...
... British Columbia . Food : Adult eats flying insects . Naiad preys on small aquatic insects and worms . Life Cycle : Female drops her eggs in swift water of riffles . Naiads stay among trash along edges . Adults are active late April in ...
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... British Columbia . Food : Adult feeds on small flying insects . Naiad eats small aquatic insects . Life Cycle : Female hovers over water , touching surface repeatedly with abdominal tip to wash off 25-50 eggs , which hatch in about 5 ...
... British Columbia . Food : Adult feeds on small flying insects . Naiad eats small aquatic insects . Life Cycle : Female hovers over water , touching surface repeatedly with abdominal tip to wash off 25-50 eggs , which hatch in about 5 ...
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... British Columbia . Food : Caterpillars and other soft insects , sometimes earthworms . Life Cycle : Eggs are dropped one at time under debris in spring . Larvae may grow 2 years before pupating in late summer . Adults emerge in fall ...
... British Columbia . Food : Caterpillars and other soft insects , sometimes earthworms . Life Cycle : Eggs are dropped one at time under debris in spring . Larvae may grow 2 years before pupating in late summer . Adults emerge in fall ...
Contents
Introduction Audubon Society | 7 |
How to Use This Guidergest private | 31 |
Glossary | 939 |
Copyright | |
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National Audubon Society Field Guide to Insects and Spiders: North America National Audubon Society No preview available - 1980 |
National Audubon Society Field Guide to Insects and Spiders: North America National Audubon Society No preview available - 1980 |
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abdomen abdominal segment Adult drinks nectar Adult eats Adults emerge antennae aphids areas bands bark bees Beetle body British Columbia brownish burrow butterflies Caterpillar Caterpillar eats Caterpillar feeds cells cephalothorax chelicerae cocoons color compound eyes Cycle damselflies dark brown Deciduous Description Eggs are laid elongate elytra Family female female's femora flies Flight Florida flowers foliage Food fore wings forests genus Grasshopper gray grayish green Habitat hair hatch head hind wings juices Larva feeds leaf legs Male Male's Mantidfly mate Meadows Mexico moths mouthparts Naiad nest North America Nymphs orange oval overwinter ovipositor pair pale parasites pedipalps plants pollen predators prey pronotum prothorax pupae pupate Range reddish brown resemble side slender small insects soil South southern Canada species spiders spines spring stripes Texas thorax Throughout North America tibiae trees twigs usually veins wasps wingless Wings clear Wingspan wood yellow yellowish