A Field Guide to Insects of Australia

Whether the reader is an amateur insect enthusiast, a student or an entomologist, this completely revised new Fifth Edition of A Field Guide to Insects in Australia offers essential information to help identify insects from all the major groups. With more photographs, species and up-to-date information, the book will enable the read- er to differentiate between a dragonfly and a damselfly or a cricket and a grasshopper. It covers cockroaches, termites, praying mantises, beetles, cicadas, moths, butterflies, ants, bees and many more. More than 350 pages and 750 color photographs show the insects in their natural habitats, while over 50 line drawings clearly illustrate the key features and differences when identification is tricky.

Paul Zborowski is a qualified entomologist with over 25 years experience of field based study of insects and related creatures in habitats all over the world's tropics. This practical knowledge is available on a consultancy basis to documentary film makers— providing a location search, subject behaviour & capture, and studio and field set design and building. Paul has worked with diverse film crews from the BBC Bristol Wildlife Unit, NHK TV and Tokyo TV of Japan, Discovery Channel of America, Wildvisuals and Quest of Australia, and produces reference, field guides and children's books. Ross Storey spent most of his professional life studying, collecting, and curating insects for the University of Queensland and the Queensland Department of Primary Industries. He described many new species and wrote scientific papers, especially on native dung beetles, on which he is a recognised world authority. Before his death in 2008, he worked as a taxonomist and curator of the QDPI's Mareeba insect collection, one of Australia's premier collections of tropical insects. Paul Zborowski is a qualified entomologist with over 25 years experience of field based study of insects and related creatures in habitats all over the world's tropics. This practical knowledge is available on a consultancy basis to documentary film makers - providing a location search, subject behaviour & capture, and studio and field set design and building. Paul has worked with diverse film crews from the BBC Bristol Wildlife Unit, NHK TV and Tokyo TV of Japan, Discovery Channel of America, Wildvisuals and Quest of Australia, and produces reference, field guides and children’ s books. Ross Storey spent most of his professional life studying, collecting and curating insects for the University of Queensland and the Queensland Department of Primary Industries. He described many new species and wrote scientific papers, especially on native dung beetles, on which he is a recognised world authority. Before his death in 2008, he worked as a taxonomist and curator of the QDPI's Mareeba insect collection, one of Australia's premier collections of tropical insects.

Preface. . 8 Introduction. . 9 What is an Insect?. . 12 Insect Life Cycles. . 18 Crypsis and Mimicry. . 23 Collecting Insects. . 29 Classification and a Key to the Insect Orders. . 34 Springtails, Proturans and Diplurans. . 43 Bristletails and Silverfish. . 47 Mayflies. . 50 Dragonflies and Damselflies. . 53 Stoneflies. . 64 Cockroaches and Termites. . 67 Mantids. . 80 Earwigs. . 86 Crickets and Grasshoppers. . 89 Stick Insects and Leaf Insects. . 105 Web-Spinners or Embiids. . 110 Booklice, Psocids and Lice. . 112 True Bugs, Hoppers, Scale Insects and Aphids. . . . . . . . . . . . . 117 Thrips. . 145 Alderflies and Dobsonflies. . 148 Lacewings, Antlions and Mantis Flies. . 150 Beetles. . 160 Stylopids. . 209 Scorpion Flies and Hanging Flies. . 211 Fleas. . 213 Flies. . 215 Caddisflies. . 241 Moths and Butterflies. . 246 Wasps, Ants, Bees and Sawflies. . 301 Glossary. . 339 Index.