Australian Insects in Colour

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Of the 750,000 species of insects in the world, more than 50,000 species are found in Australia. As a group, insects are the most successful animals that have ever lived; and they have colonised everywhere. The only habitat they have not really successfully colonised is the marine environment.
Apart from our encounters with flies, fleas and cockroaches in daily life, insects are of tremendous economic importance in agriculture and the transmission of disease among both people and animals in Australia.
Australian Insects in Colour covers those insects found commonly in Australia — in the home, garden, bush, beach, desert, mountain and river. The text describes different types of insects, their habitats and their relationships to other animals. The majority of those described and illustrated in this book are unique to Australia. Readers will be astonished at the remarkable variety.
The text is authorative and highly readable. With the accompanying pho- -to graphs, an extremely... Tovább

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Of the 750,000 species of insects in the world, more than 50,000 species are found in Australia. As a group, insects are the most successful animals that have ever lived; and they have colonised everywhere. The only habitat they have not really successfully colonised is the marine environment.
Apart from our encounters with flies, fleas and cockroaches in daily life, insects are of tremendous economic importance in agriculture and the transmission of disease among both people and animals in Australia.
Australian Insects in Colour covers those insects found commonly in Australia — in the home, garden, bush, beach, desert, mountain and river. The text describes different types of insects, their habitats and their relationships to other animals. The majority of those described and illustrated in this book are unique to Australia. Readers will be astonished at the remarkable variety.
The text is authorative and highly readable. With the accompanying pho- -to graphs, an extremely clear picture of each insect is conveyed. ANTHONY HEALY, bom in Sydney in 1934, is a representative for a large photographic manufacturer and takes photographs for a hobby. This pastime, combined with his interest in natural history, naturally lead him to specialise in nature photography and to judge entries in this category at photographic salons.
He regularly lectures and discusses the techniques he uses in photography. In recognition of this service and his work he has been awarded the honour of Artiste de la Fédération Internationale de l'Art Photographique (AFIAP).
In 1962 he accompanied the Australian Museum's Swain Reefs Expedition to the Great Barrier Reef and was photographer on the Australian Bio-speleological Expedition to New Caledonia in 1967. He is an Honorary Associate of the Australian Museum and contributes photographs to their publication Australian Natural History. COURTENAY NEVILLE SMITHERS, Ph.D., is Principal Curator at the Australian Museum, Sydney. He was bom in South Africa and grew up in England. After active service in France with the 6th Airborne Division, he graduated from Rhodes University in 1951. He carried out research on Tsetse flies in remote areas of Africa and subsequently investigated problems of Forest and Agricultural Entomology in the tropics.
He joined the staff of the Australian Museum in 1960 where his major research interests are the study of Insect Migration and the Psocoptera, on which he is a leading authority. His research has taken him around the world to examine existing inject collections and he has himself collected specimens for his research from many parts of Africa, Australia, New Zealand, New Guinea and several Pacific Islands. Vissza