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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... pronotum , which extends backward beyond tip of abdomen . Femora of middle legs extremely long . Side ridges of pronotum weak toward front . Front projection of head no wider than 1 compound eye . Habitat : Desert soil , especially ...
... pronotum , which extends backward beyond tip of abdomen . Femora of middle legs extremely long . Side ridges of pronotum weak toward front . Front projection of head no wider than 1 compound eye . Habitat : Desert soil , especially ...
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... pronotum and in preferred foods . 285 California Katydid ( Microcentrum californicum ) Description : 14-28 " ( 45-60 mm ) . Green . Hind femora short , no more than 2/3 length of fore wings . Pronotum incurved in front at midline ...
... pronotum and in preferred foods . 285 California Katydid ( Microcentrum californicum ) Description : 14-28 " ( 45-60 mm ) . Green . Hind femora short , no more than 2/3 length of fore wings . Pronotum incurved in front at midline ...
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... pronotum and sides of thorax . Pronotum narrow's at front . Habitat : Woods and meadows . Range : Coastal areas from California to British Columbia . Food : Foliage of trees and shrubs . Life Cycle : Flat , oval gray eggs are cemented ...
... pronotum and sides of thorax . Pronotum narrow's at front . Habitat : Woods and meadows . Range : Coastal areas from California to British Columbia . Food : Foliage of trees and shrubs . Life Cycle : Flat , oval gray eggs are cemented ...
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