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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... wings , or elytra , are hard and armorlike ; they cover the membranous hind wings used for flying . The fore wings , or hemelytra , of true bugs are leathery and have membranous tips . The arrangement of veins on the wings , known as wing ...
... wings , or elytra , are hard and armorlike ; they cover the membranous hind wings used for flying . The fore wings , or hemelytra , of true bugs are leathery and have membranous tips . The arrangement of veins on the wings , known as wing ...
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Lorus Johnson Milne, Margery Milne. geographic ranges and different markings on the wings ; many have yellow hind wings . 531 Yellow Woolly Bear Moth ( Diacrisia virginica ) Description : Wingspan 11⁄2 - 2 " ( 38–50 mm ) . Wings snow ...
Lorus Johnson Milne, Margery Milne. geographic ranges and different markings on the wings ; many have yellow hind wings . 531 Yellow Woolly Bear Moth ( Diacrisia virginica ) Description : Wingspan 11⁄2 - 2 " ( 38–50 mm ) . Wings snow ...
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Lorus Johnson Milne, Margery Milne. veins on somewhat paler olive - brown fore wings , and almost black hind wings . Additional species , mostly with yellow veins on the fore wings , occur in the Southwest . TUSSOCK MOTHS AND KIN ...
Lorus Johnson Milne, Margery Milne. veins on somewhat paler olive - brown fore wings , and almost black hind wings . Additional species , mostly with yellow veins on the fore wings , occur in the Southwest . TUSSOCK MOTHS AND KIN ...
Contents
Introduction Audubon Society | 7 |
How to Use This Guidergest private | 31 |
Glossary | 939 |
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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