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Books on Insects
Selected Books for Biology of Insects
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Conservation l Evolution l General l Interactions l Insect Societies
Ants l Bees l Beetles l Damselflies/Dragonflies l + Spiders
- Insect conservation: a handbook of approaches and methodsMichael J. Samways et al, 2010.
- Insect conservation and islandsT.R. New, ed., 2008.
- Evolution of the insectsDavid Grimaldi and Michael S. Engel, 2005.
- Secret weapons: defenses of insects, spiders, scorpions, and other many-legged creaturesThomas Eisner et al, 2005.
- Specialization, speciation, and radiation: the evolutionary biology of herbivorous insectsKelley Jean Tilmon, ed., 2008.
- American insects: a handbook of the insects of America north of MexicoRoss H. Arnett, Jr., 2000.
- Arthropod diversity and conservationDavid L. Hawksworth and Alan T. Bull, eds., 2006.
- Ecology of insects: concepts and applicationsMartin R. Speight et al, 2008.
- EntomologyCedric Gillott, 3rd ed., 2005.
- Insect physiological ecology: mechanisms and patternsSteven L. Chown and Sue W. Nicolson, 2004.
- The insects: an outline of entomologyPenny J. Gullan and Peter S. Cranston, 2010.
- [The] fever: how malaria has ruled humankind for 500,000 yearsSonia Shah, 2010.
- From biological control to invasion: the ladybird harmonia axyridis as a model speciesHelen E. Roy and Eric Wajnberg, eds., 2008.
- Insects and wildlife: arthropods and their relationships with wild vertebrate animalsJohn L. Capinera, 2010.
- Insects as natural enemies: a practical perspectiveMark A. Jervis, ed., 2005.
- Insect biodiversity: science and societyRobert G. Foottit and Peter H. Adler, eds., 2009.
- Insect-plant biologyLouis M. Schoonhoven et al, 2005.
- Medical and veterinary entomologyGary Mullen and Lance Durden, eds., 2002.
- Transgenesis and the management of vector-borne diseaseSerap Aksoy, 2008.
- Organization of insect societies: from genome to sociocomplexityJürgen Gadau and Jennifer Fewell, 2009.
- The other insect societiesJames T. Costa, 2006.
- The superorganism: the beauty, elegance, and strangeness of insect societiesBert Hölldobler and Edward O. Wilson, 2009.
- Adventures among ants: a global safari with a cast of trillionsMark W. Moffett, 2010.
- Ant ecologyLori Lach et al, eds., 2010.
- [The] ecology and evolution of ant-plant interactionsVictor Rico-Gray and Paulo S. Oliveira, 2007.
- Kingdom of ants: José Celestino Mutis and the dawn of natural history in the New WorldEdward O. Wilson and José M. Gómez Durán, 2010.
- The leafcutter ants: civilization by instinctBert Hölldobler and Edward O. Wilson, 2011.
- The lives of antsLaurent Keller and Élisabeth Gordon, 2010.
- [The] bees of the worldCharles D. Michener, 2007.
- Fruitless fall: the collapse of the honey bee and the coming agricultural crisisRowan Jacobsen, 2008.
- Honeybee democracyThomas D. Seeley, 2010.
- Letters from the hive: an intimate history of bees, honey, and humankindStephen Buchmann, 2005.
- Beetle conservationT.R. New, ed., 2007.
- Introduction to California beetlesArthur V. Evans and James N. Hogue, 2004.
- Damselfly genera of the New World: an illustrated and annotated key to the ZygopteraRosser W. Garrison et al, 2010.
- Dragonflies and damselflies: model organisms for ecological and evolutionary researchAlex Córdoba-Aguilar, ed., 2010.
- Dragonflies and damselflies of the WestDennis Paulson, 2009.
- Dragonfly genera of the New World: an illustrated and annotated key to the AnisopteraRosser W. Garrison, et al, 2006.
- ArachnidsJan Beccaloni, 2009.
- Biology of spidersRainer F. Foelix, 2011.
- Spider behaviour: flexibility and versatilityMarie Elisabeth Herberstein, ed., 2011.
- Spider silk: evolution and 400 million years of spinning, waiting, snagging, and matingLeslie Brunetta and Catherine L. Craig, 2010.
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