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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Page 546
... larvae and caterpillars . A few inhabit termite and ant nests . The larvae of most are found in galleries of wood - boring beetles and feed on their larvae . The larvae of some species live in sand around roots of dune grasses and ...
... larvae and caterpillars . A few inhabit termite and ant nests . The larvae of most are found in galleries of wood - boring beetles and feed on their larvae . The larvae of some species live in sand around roots of dune grasses and ...
Page 549
... larvae . Life Cycle : Adults often drag a small carcass 16 ' , bury it beneath loose dirt , then mate there . They remove fur or feathers , work body into a ball shape then lay eggs . Adults care for larvae until larvae pupate ...
... larvae . Life Cycle : Adults often drag a small carcass 16 ' , bury it beneath loose dirt , then mate there . They remove fur or feathers , work body into a ball shape then lay eggs . Adults care for larvae until larvae pupate ...
Page 801
... larvae in the order are legless , but sawfly larvae have legs on the thorax and several pairs of abdominal prolegs . In bees and a few wasps the larvae feed on pollen or nectar . Most wasps lay eggs in tunnels , cavities , or nests of ...
... larvae in the order are legless , but sawfly larvae have legs on the thorax and several pairs of abdominal prolegs . In bees and a few wasps the larvae feed on pollen or nectar . Most wasps lay eggs in tunnels , cavities , or nests of ...
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