Miniature Lives : Identifying Insects in Your Home and Garden

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Miniature Lives......Page 1 Contents......Page 8 Foreword......Page 6 Acknowledgements......Page 10 About the author......Page 11 Why I wrote this book......Page 12 Approaches to identifying insects......Page 13 How to use this book......Page 14 What is an insect?......Page 16 Insect body parts......Page 18 Taxonomy – how insects are named......Page 22 Insect Orders – how insects are grouped......Page 23 Insect growth and lifecycles......Page 31 Using this chapter......Page 36 Tools of the trade......Page 38 The identification key......Page 40 Maggots, grubs and caterpillars......Page 75 Using this chapter......Page 82 Tips for getting started......Page 83 Kitchen and pantry......Page 85 Living room......Page 89 Bathroom......Page 94 Bedroom......Page 95 Around lights......Page 97 In water......Page 104 Soil, leaf litter and compost......Page 113 On trees and shrubs......Page 117 On citrus trees......Page 127 In the vegetable garden......Page 131 On native trees and shrubs......Page 136 In and around the lawn......Page 139 In and around flowers......Page 143 On the bodies of animals – the bloodsuckers......Page 146 In large groups – masses and migrations......Page 149 Tips for getting started......Page 156 Markings on leaves and bark......Page 157 Lumps and bumps on plants......Page 161 Nests and hideouts......Page 164 Cocoons, cases and eggs......Page 166 How to use this chapter......Page 172 Bees, wasps, ants and sawflies – Order Hymenoptera......Page 173 Beetles – Order Coleoptera......Page 197 Booklice – Order Psocoptera......Page 205 Butterflies and moths – Order Lepidoptera......Page 208 Cockroaches – Order Blattodea......Page 218 Dragonflies and damselflies – Order Odonata......Page 223 Earwigs – Order Dermaptera......Page 230 Fleas – Order Siphonaptera......Page 232 Flies – Order Diptera......Page 236 Grasshoppers and crickets – Order Orthoptera......Page 244 Lacewings – Order Neuroptera......Page 252 Lice – Order Phthiraptera......Page 257 Praying mantids – Order Mantodea......Page 261 Silverfish – Order Thysanura......Page 267 Stick and leaf insects – Order Phasmatodea......Page 270 Termites – Order Isoptera......Page 276 Thrips – Order Thysanoptera......Page 281 True bugs – Order Hemiptera......Page 285 Non-insect arthropods......Page 308 Glossary......Page 315 Pronunciation guide......Page 324 Bibliography......Page 327 Further reading......Page 332 Index......Page 336