Animals on Seaweed (Naturalists' Handbook Series)

Science & Math

Hayward, Peter J.

Biological Sciences

Richmond Publishing Ltd

Mosquitoes (Naturalists' Handbook Series)

Snow, Keith R.

Microclimate is the very local climate close to the ground or another surface. The microclimate around a plant is particularly complex and interesting, and an insect sitting on a leaf may be inhabiting a weather system completely different from the weather outside. An understanding of the microclimate around plants enables us to interpret the behaviour pattern of insects as they change through the day.The instruments needed for exploring microclimate need not be expensive - this book explains how many of them can be made at home or at school using inexpensive components. The colour illustrations provide a guide to the main groups of insects, and identification keys are listed for each.

Insects, Plants and Microclimate (Naturalists' Handbook Series)

D.M. Unwin

Weevils (Naturalists' Handbook Series)

M.G. Morris

Morris, M.G.

Most of us have noticed galls as bizarre and often colourful distortions of plant growth, and wondered what goes on inside them. The drama enacted within a single gall may involve many species of insects and mites. Their interrelationships are intricate and their identification has been challenging. The communities of insects and mites associated with galls of certain plants, when unravelled by specialists, have proved to be of great ecological interest.This book will make galls accessible to a wider audience. It introduces the wonderfully complex communities associated with galls, and provides keys for identification of the gall former, and many other occupants, including predators and parasites. To make this task manageable the authors have concentrated on galls associated with selected plant species, and have presented a food web to illustrate the relationships among the animals associated with each type of gall. Much remains to be discovered about these and other galls and their inhabitants. For the first time, this book brings that exploration within the scope on interested naturalists and students.Galls are often abundant and readily available systems for the study of ecology. Investigations undertaken at home or in schools and universities may help to advance our knowledge of these microcosms, and of the ecological interactions that they illustrate so compactly.

Plant Galls (Naturalists' Handbook Series)

Margaret Redfern

R.R. Askew

Ants (Naturalists' Handbook Series)

Gary J. Skinner

Geoffrey W. Allen

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