Product Description

With around one million species, insects are the most successful animals to have evolved on earth. Yet much of their biology continues to remain a mystery. Christopher O'Toole has compiled a superbly illustrated and definitive work on insects, spiders, and millipedes combining easy to read articles by distinguished entomologists with outstanding photographs and specially commissioned artwork, making this encyclopedia an authoritative and accessible work on the 'mini-beasts' of our
planet.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #718330 in Books
• Published on: 2002-10-03
• Original language: English
• Binding: Hardcover
• 240 pages

About the Author
Chris O'Toole works in the Hope Entomological Collections of the Oxford University Museum of Natural History, where he runs the Bee Systematics and Biology Unit. His research interests include the systematics and floral relations of bees in the Middle East and the biodiversity of native bees in South American and African savannas.
Chris O'Toole has collaborated in the making of many natural history films about insects, most recently the six-part BBCTV series Alien Empire, for which he wrote the accompanying book of the same name. Apart from scientific papers, he has published 14 books for the popular market on insect behaviour and natural history, including Insects in Camera: Photographic Essays in Behaviour (with K. G. Preston-Mafham), Bees of the World (with Anthony Raw), The Red Mason Bee: Taking the Sting out of
Beekeeping, and Bumblebees.

Customer Reviews

Superb overview of the insect world
I have a collection of books on insects & spiders but this one is the best yet. I ordered it blind, never having seen it or a review of it and was absolutely delighted. In addition to having original and marvellous pictures with great depth of field (how do they do that?) the text is of the highest standard and is just jam packed with information written almost at an academic level. It is quiet a large book (slightly larger than A4) with 240 pages and is truly excellent value. I can't recommend it highly enough.

insects
This excellent book which is the work of 23 contributors deals with arthropods(millipedes and centipedes),insects(32 species including lice,wasps,butterflies, cockroaches etc.) and arachnids(spiders, ticks and scorpions.)
There is a very useful introduction to each species which lists distribution,size,features,life cycleand conservation status
The photographs and artwork are superb but you need a magnifying glass to read the index.This is the only book on this subject you will need.