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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... slender middle and hind legs are used for walking , standing , and leaping . 301 Obscure Ground Mantid ( Litaneutria obscura ) Description : 58–198 " ( 15–30 mm ) . Gray . Male has sooty gray wings with a brown spot near base of fore ...
... slender middle and hind legs are used for walking , standing , and leaping . 301 Obscure Ground Mantid ( Litaneutria obscura ) Description : 58–198 " ( 15–30 mm ) . Gray . Male has sooty gray wings with a brown spot near base of fore ...
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... slender , elongate insects with dark brown bodies , 8-1 " ( 10-25 mm ) long . Some species have spherical bodies that are much shorter than their legs . All have short fore legs and longer , slender middle and hind legs that arise close ...
... slender , elongate insects with dark brown bodies , 8-1 " ( 10-25 mm ) long . Some species have spherical bodies that are much shorter than their legs . All have short fore legs and longer , slender middle and hind legs that arise close ...
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... slender legs , ready to flutter away from any disturbance . The caterpillars spin webs on plants while feeding . The pupating caterpillars suspend themselves by the cremaster , and the pupae retain this connection , resembling many ...
... slender legs , ready to flutter away from any disturbance . The caterpillars spin webs on plants while feeding . The pupating caterpillars suspend themselves by the cremaster , and the pupae retain this connection , resembling many ...
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