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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... flowers at dusk and before dawn , but rarely feeds in total darkness . Like most sphinx moths , it is strongly attracted to artificial lights . Formerly assigned to genus Pholus . 569 Hummingbird Moth " Common Clearwing " ( Hemaris ...
... flowers at dusk and before dawn , but rarely feeds in total darkness . Like most sphinx moths , it is strongly attracted to artificial lights . Formerly assigned to genus Pholus . 569 Hummingbird Moth " Common Clearwing " ( Hemaris ...
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... flowers . All bees are covered with branched or feathery hair but some have more hair than others . When a bee visits a flower , pollen sticks to the hair . Most female bees have a pollen - collecting apparatus ; males do not collect ...
... flowers . All bees are covered with branched or feathery hair but some have more hair than others . When a bee visits a flower , pollen sticks to the hair . Most female bees have a pollen - collecting apparatus ; males do not collect ...
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... flowers . Range : Throughout North America and southern Canada . Food : Flower - visiting insects . Life Cycle : Eggs are protected in a silken sac . Female usually dies before spiderlings hatch and disperse . This spider's coloring ...
... flowers . Range : Throughout North America and southern Canada . Food : Flower - visiting insects . Life Cycle : Eggs are protected in a silken sac . Female usually dies before spiderlings hatch and disperse . This spider's coloring ...
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