National Wildlife Federation field guide to insects and spiders & related species of North America

Evans, Arthur V. (Author). National Wildlife Federation. (Added Author).

Summary: Identifies "more than 940 species ... More than 2,000 close-up color photographs ... reveal the field marks that distinguish each creature, and the ... text that accompanies each image describes the range, habitat, life cycle, and behavior ... [Includes] information on starting a collection, planting an arthropod garden, keeping insects and spiders in captivity, and learning the techniques of macro photography."--Publisher description.

Record details

ISBN: 1402741537 (pbk.)
ISBN: 9781402741531 (pbk.)
Physical Description: print
496 pages : illustrations (some color), map ; 20 cm.
Publisher: New York : Sterling Pub., c2007.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 480-482) and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Introduction -- Insects, spiders, and people -- Scope and arrangement of this guide -- Classification -- What is an insect? -- The body plan of insects and entognaths -- Growth and development of entognaths and insects -- Metamorphosis -- Synopsis of North American hexapod orders -- Class entognatha -- Class insecta -- What is a spider? -- The body plan of spiders -- Synopsis of common North American arachnid orders -- Other arthropods -- Myriapoda : centipedes, millipedes, and kin -- Crustacea : crayfish, shrimps, pillbugs, and kin -- Natural history of insects, spiders, and their kin -- Feeding behavior -- Defense behavior -- Conserving the silent majority -- Finding insects, spiders, and their kin -- Where to look -- Making an identification -- About the guide -- Entognaths -- Proturans (order Protura) -- Springtails (order Collembola) -- Diplurans (order Diplura) -- Insects -- Jumping bristletails (order Microcoryphia) -- Silverfish and firebrats (order Thysanura) -- Mayflies (order Ephemeroptera) -- Dragonflies and damselflies (order Odonata) -- Cockroaches (order Blattodea) -- Termites (order Isoptera).