"Discover the busy world of insects--their structure, history, and fascinating variety"--Cover New Look! Relaunched with new jackets and eight pages of new text! Here is a spectacular and informative guide to the extraordinary world of insects. Superb color photographs of beetl…
"True flies, or Diptera, are an exceedingly diverse and tremendously important group of animals not only because of their impact on human health, but also because of their varied roles as decomposers, herbivores, predators and parasites of other animals.This two-volume book, a c…
Volume 1 covers 42 of the 106 families of flies (sometimes termed the Lower Diptera) and also includes introductory chapters dealing with morphology and terminology, natural history, economic importance and phylogeny of Diptera, as well as keys to all the Central American fly fa…
