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Books > Sport & Leisure > Natural history, country life & pets > Wild animals > Insects & spiders

Fabre's Book Of Insects (Paperback): Jean-Henri Fabre Fabre's Book Of Insects (Paperback)
Jean-Henri Fabre
R258 R244 Discovery Miles 2 440 Save R14 (5%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Great French entomologist's charming essays on insect life combine scientific rigor with the style of a literary classic. Beautifully written passages reveal the intricate, fascinating worlds of the beetle, cicada, praying mantis, glow-worm, wasp, grub, cricket, locust, and other creatures as they hunt, build nests, feed families, and more. Rare volume will delight any naturalist.

Spinning Jenny and Devil's Darning Needle (Paperback): M.Jill Lucas Spinning Jenny and Devil's Darning Needle (Paperback)
M.Jill Lucas
R298 Discovery Miles 2 980 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Life of the Bee (Paperback): Maurice Maeterlinck The Life of the Bee (Paperback)
Maurice Maeterlinck; Translated by Alfred Sutro
R827 Discovery Miles 8 270 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Four Wings and a Prayer - Caught in the Mystery of the Monarch Butterfly (Paperback, 1st Vintage Books ed): Sue Halpern Four Wings and a Prayer - Caught in the Mystery of the Monarch Butterfly (Paperback, 1st Vintage Books ed)
Sue Halpern
R402 Discovery Miles 4 020 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Every autumn, the monarch butterflies east of the Rockies migrate from as far north as Canada to Mexico. Memory is not their guide — no one butterfly makes the round trip — but each year somehow find their way to the same fifty acres of forest on the high slopes of Mexico’s Neovolcanic Mountains, and then make the return trip in the spring.

In Four Wings and a Prayer, Sue Halpern sets off on an adventure to delve into the secrets behind this extraordinary phenomenon. She visits scientists and butterfly lovers across the country, offering a keenly observed portrait of the monarchs’ migration and of the people for whom they have become a glorious obsession. Combining science, memoir, and travel writing, Four Wings and a Prayer is an absorbing travelogue and a fascinating meditation on a profound mystery of the natural world.

The Life of the Fly (Paperback): Alexander Teixeira De Mattos The Life of the Fly (Paperback)
Alexander Teixeira De Mattos; Jean-Henri Fabre
R557 Discovery Miles 5 570 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Tiny Game Hunting - Environmentally Healthy Ways to Trap and Kill the Pests in Your House and Garden (Paperback, New edition):... Tiny Game Hunting - Environmentally Healthy Ways to Trap and Kill the Pests in Your House and Garden (Paperback, New edition)
Hilary Dole Klein, Adrian M Wenner; Illustrated by Courtlandt Johnson
R713 Discovery Miles 7 130 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Every year Americans use a staggering five hundred million pounds of toxic pesticides in and around their homes, schools, parks, and roads - a growing health risk for people and the environment. But are these poisons really necessary? This book, appealing to the hunter in us all, shows how to triumph in combat with pests without losing the war to toxic chemicals. Tiny Game Hunting, written in a lively and entertaining style and illustrated with detailed drawings, gives more than two hundred tried-and-true ways to control or kill common household and garden pests without using toxic pesticides.

Insect Mythology (Paperback): Gene Kritsky, Ron Cherry Insect Mythology (Paperback)
Gene Kritsky, Ron Cherry
R313 R297 Discovery Miles 2 970 Save R16 (5%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Hive - The Story of the Honeybee and Us (Paperback): Bee Wilson The Hive - The Story of the Honeybee and Us (Paperback)
Bee Wilson
R601 R549 Discovery Miles 5 490 Save R52 (9%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Ever since men first hunted for honeycomb in rocks and daubed pictures of it on cave walls, the honeybee has been seen as one of the wonders of nature: social, industrious, beautiful, terrifying. No other creature has inspired in humans an identification so passionate, persistent, or fantastical.
"The Hive "recounts the astonishing tale of all the weird and wonderful things that humans believed about bees and their "society" over the ages. It ranges from the honey delta of ancient Egypt to the Tupelo forests of modern Florida, taking in a cast of characters including Alexander the Great and Napoleon, Sherlock Holmes and Muhammed Ali.
The history of humans and honeybees is also a history of ideas, taking us through the evolution of science, religion, and politics, and a social history that explores the bee's impact on food and human ritual.
In this beautifully illustrated book, Bee Wilson shows how humans will always view the hive as a miniature universe with order and purpose, and look to it to make sense of their own.

The Red Hourglass - Lives of the Predators (Paperback): Gordon Grice The Red Hourglass - Lives of the Predators (Paperback)
Gordon Grice
R481 Discovery Miles 4 810 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Snake venom that digests human flesh. A building cleared of every living thing by a band of tiny spiders. An infant insect eating its living prey from within, saving the vital organs for last. These are among the deadly feats of natural engineering you'll witness in "The Red Hourglass, " prize-winning author Gordon Grice's masterful, poetic, often dryly funny exploration of predators he has encountered around his rural Oklahoma home.
Grice is a witty and intrepid guide through a world where mating ends in cannibalism, where killers possess toxins so lethal as to defy our ideas of a benevolent God, where spider remains, scattered like "the cast-off coats of untidy children," tell a quiet story of violent self-extermination. It's a world you'll recognize despite its exotic strangeness--the world in which we live. Unabashedly stepping into the mix, Grice abandons his role as objective observer with beguiling dark humor--collecting spiders and other vermin, decorating a tarantula's terrarium with dollhouse furniture, or forcing a battle between captive insects because he deems one "too stupid to live."
Kill. Eat. Mate. Die. Charting the simple brutality of the lives of these predators, Grice's starkly graceful essays guide us toward startling truths about our own predatory nature. "The Red Hourglass" brings us face to fanged face with the inadequacy of our distinctions between normal and abnormal, dead and alive, innocent and evil.

"From the Hardcover edition."

Planet of the Bugs (Hardcover): Scott Richard Shaw Planet of the Bugs (Hardcover)
Scott Richard Shaw
R891 Discovery Miles 8 910 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Dinosaurs, however toothy, did not rule the earth--and neither do humans. But what were and are the true potentates of our planet? Insects, says Scott Richard Shaw--"millions" and "millions" of insect species. Starting in the shallow oceans of ancient Earth and ending in the far reaches of outer space--where, Shaw proposes, insect-like aliens may have achieved similar preeminence--"Planet of the Bugs" spins a sweeping account of insects' evolution from humble arthropod ancestors into the bugs we know and love (or fear and hate) today.
Leaving no stone unturned, Shaw explores how evolutionary innovations such as small body size, wings, metamorphosis, and parasitic behavior have enabled insects to disperse widely, occupy increasingly narrow niches, and survive global catastrophes in their rise to dominance. Through buggy tales by turns bizarre and comical--from caddisflies that construct portable houses or weave silken aquatic nets to trap floating debris, to parasitic wasp larvae that develop in the blood of host insects and, by storing waste products in their rear ends, are able to postpone defecation until after they emerge--he not only unearths how changes in our planet's geology, flora, and fauna contributed to insects' success, but also how, in return, insects came to shape terrestrial ecosystems and amplify biodiversity. Indeed, in his visits to hyperdiverse rain forests to highlight the current insect extinction crisis, Shaw reaffirms just how crucial these tiny beings are to planetary health and human survival.
In this age of honeybee die-offs and bedbugs hitching rides in the spines of library books, "Planet of the Bugs "charms with humor, affection, and insight into the world's six-legged creatures, revealing an essential importance that resonates across time and space.

The Earth Dwellers - Adventures in the Land of Ants (Paperback, 1st Touchstone ed): Erich Hoyt The Earth Dwellers - Adventures in the Land of Ants (Paperback, 1st Touchstone ed)
Erich Hoyt
R557 Discovery Miles 5 570 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This is a close-up look at the world of ants. Erich Hoyt recounts observations from an ant expedition to the tropical jungle with Edward O. Wilson. He introduces ants who harvest crops, raise insects as livestock, build roads and bridges, embark on nuptial fights and go to war.

RSPB Spotlight Ladybirds (Paperback): Richard Comont RSPB Spotlight Ladybirds (Paperback)
Richard Comont 1
R395 R367 Discovery Miles 3 670 Save R28 (7%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

RSPB Spotlight: Ladybirds is packed with eye-catching, informative colour photos, and features succinct, detailed text written by a knowledgeable naturalist. Brightly coloured and pleasingly pattered, ladybirds are among some of our most beloved and familiar invertebrates. Their role in helping to protect our crops by devouring huge numbers of pests has firmly established these tiny, flying beetles as the gardeners' friend. Spotlight Ladybird focuses on the 26 species that are resident in the UK, from the widespread but unusual Orange Ladybird to the rare - and aptly named - Scarce 7-spot Ladybird. Ladybird expert, Richard Comont considers the conservation challenges facing these iconic species, whose populations are now at risk thanks to the threat posed by one of their own, the invasive alien Harlequin Ladybird. And he covers all aspects of ladybirds' biology, from tiny larvae emerging from their oval eggs to large aggregations that converge at specific sites around the world. Richard also examines the natural history and cultural significance of this fascinating group of beetles, from Ladybird Books to Thor. The Spotlight series introduces readers to the lives of our favourite animals with eye-catching colour photos and informative expert text.

Dragonflies and Damselflies of Costa Rica - A Field Guide (Paperback): Dennis R Paulson, William A Haber Dragonflies and Damselflies of Costa Rica - A Field Guide (Paperback)
Dennis R Paulson, William A Haber
R791 Discovery Miles 7 910 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Among the largest of all insects, dragonflies and damselflies are conspicuous. Active during the day, often brightly colored, and extremely photogenic-something about their appearance and dashing flight suggests a primeval world of tree ferns and dinosaurs. The first guide of its kind, this book includes an in-depth introduction with an overview of Costa Rican biodiversity and illustrated morphological terms. The species accounts show males and females of most species, detailed illustrations and close-ups of key distinguishing features, and descriptions of habitat, behavior, and range. Dragonflies and Damselflies of Costa Rica gives readers the information they need to identify nearly every species in the country. Experienced dragonfly fans and new enthusiasts alike will find it an indispensable resource.

Insects Of The Southwest (Paperback): Werner/ols Werner/ols Insects Of The Southwest (Paperback)
Werner/ols Werner/ols
R625 Discovery Miles 6 250 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The authors describe more than 120 common varieties of southwestern insects and arthropods, enabling the reader to appreciate and respect the role "creepy crawlies" play in the world.

Peep Inside a Beehive (Board book): Anna Milbourne Peep Inside a Beehive (Board book)
Anna Milbourne; Illustrated by Stephanie Fizer Coleman 1
R280 R256 Discovery Miles 2 560 Save R24 (9%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days

Discover how honey is made, what bees do all day and how baby bees are born in this fascinating introduction to the world of bees. With colourful illustrations, flaps to lift and holes to peep through.

The BBKA Guide to Beekeeping, Second Edition (Paperback, 2nd edition): Ivor Davis, Roger Cullum-Kenyon The BBKA Guide to Beekeeping, Second Edition (Paperback, 2nd edition)
Ivor Davis, Roger Cullum-Kenyon
R678 Discovery Miles 6 780 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The number of people interested and active in keeping bees at an amateur level has continued to increase over the past few years in both rural and urban situations. This guide, aimed at beginning beekeepers, and the only one to be endorsed by the BBKA provides an authoritative text, along with clear photographs and illustrations. The book introduces the reader to beekeeping, including such areas as the workings of the colony, the structure of a hive, how to acquire bees and keep them healthy and what happens in each month in a beekeeping year. Each chapter is accompanied by anecdotes, answers to frequently asked questions and fascinating facts about bees and honey. The new edition includes new step-by-step sequences to illustrate procedures such as containing a swarm, identifying the queen, using a smoker and cleaning a hive as well as more information on different kinds of hives, disease management and many other key areas.

The Queen Must Die - And Other Affairs of Bees and Men (Paperback): William Longgood The Queen Must Die - And Other Affairs of Bees and Men (Paperback)
William Longgood; Illustrated by Pamela Johnson 1
R515 Discovery Miles 5 150 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Illustrations by Pamela Johnson

"Why is it that insects often inspire such good writing? You think of Jean Henri Fabre, William Morton Wheeler, you think of Howard Evans' Wasp Farm. To these classics we must now add The Queen Must Die, an altogether pleasing ethnography of the beehive." —Jake Page

"A very fine book indeed. . . . Longgood's Thoreauvian patience and powers of observation . . . make The Queen Must Die a special book." —James Kauffman, Christian Science Monitor

"Longgood's enthusiasm for his subject is infectious. He supplies a fund of unfamiliar information about a changeless civilization buzzing about its business just outside our attention." —Walter Clemons, Newsweek

"The remarkable complex social order of bees leads the least speculative to speculate, and Longgood's speculations, leavened with quiet wit, are of a high order of stylish imagination." —Los Angeles Times

"A beautiful book about one of nature's most industrious, 'work-or-die' insects. . . . Fascinating reading." —Rocky Mountain News

Microscopy on a Shoestring for Beekeepers and Naturalists (Paperback): Owen Meyer Microscopy on a Shoestring for Beekeepers and Naturalists (Paperback)
Owen Meyer
R512 Discovery Miles 5 120 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Stokes Guide to Observing Insect Lives (Paperback): Donald Stokes, Lillian Stokes Stokes Guide to Observing Insect Lives (Paperback)
Donald Stokes, Lillian Stokes
R716 Discovery Miles 7 160 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Explore close-up the fascinating lives of insects.

Why do fireflies glow? How do a cricket's chirps differ from a grasshopper's? At what time of day are dragonflies most active? This information-packed guide explains the behavior of the insects around us-and raises the curtain on an exciting drama taking place before our eyes. Illustrated throughout with pen-and-ink drawings, the Stokes Guide to Observing Insect Lives tells how, where, and when to observe the most intriguing activities of more than 60 common insects in their natural habitats. The species covered range from ants, bumblebees, and silk moths to June beetles, snow fleas, and monarch butterflies.

The Odonata of Canada and Alaska, Volume Three - Part III: The Anisoptera-Three Families (Paperback): Edmund M. Walker, Philip... The Odonata of Canada and Alaska, Volume Three - Part III: The Anisoptera-Three Families (Paperback)
Edmund M. Walker, Philip S. Corbet
R1,473 Discovery Miles 14 730 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Cicindelidae of Canada (Paperback): J B Wallis The Cicindelidae of Canada (Paperback)
J B Wallis
R573 Discovery Miles 5 730 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The bright colours and fascinating ways of this small but important group of insects attract immediate attention. Cicindelidae, or tiger beetles, are frequently encountered, but they are difficult to capture, since they are alert and elusive, and still more difficult to identify. This intensive study of the distinguishing characteristics, geographical distribution and variation, and habits and habitats of tiger beetles in Canada - the culmination of the author's main interest for many years - will provide a much-needed reference work. Studies of insect families are scarce, and professional and amateur entomologists alike will find this book a most useful aid in their investigations and a stimulus to further research.

The Odonata of Canada and Alaska, Volume Two, Part III - The Anisoptera-Four Families (Paperback): Edmund M. Walker The Odonata of Canada and Alaska, Volume Two, Part III - The Anisoptera-Four Families (Paperback)
Edmund M. Walker
R1,474 Discovery Miles 14 740 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Bees of North Carolina - An Identification Guide (Paperback): Elsa Youngsteadt, Hannah Levenson The Bees of North Carolina - An Identification Guide (Paperback)
Elsa Youngsteadt, Hannah Levenson
R520 R387 Discovery Miles 3 870 Save R133 (26%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Identifying bees on the wing is known to be tricky. The Bees of North Carolina: An Identification Guide is a beginner's resource designed to help quickly and generally identify native bees in North Carolina. Developed by experts at NC State Extension, it provides an overview of some of the most common groups of bees in the state. The guide will help users learn to recognize bees according to key characteristics and, eventually, according to their overall appearance.

The Odonata of Canada and Alaska, Volume One - Part I: General, Part II: The Zygoptera-Damselflies (Paperback): Edmund M. Walker The Odonata of Canada and Alaska, Volume One - Part I: General, Part II: The Zygoptera-Damselflies (Paperback)
Edmund M. Walker
R1,440 Discovery Miles 14 400 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Bees, Birds & Butterflies Sticker Anthology (Hardcover): Dk The Bees, Birds & Butterflies Sticker Anthology (Hardcover)
Dk
R527 Discovery Miles 5 270 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Capture the delicate beauty of the great outdoors with this enchanting collection of stickers. Page after page of this book is packed with beautiful vintage drawings of creatures that soar, flutter, and glide. Get creative! Adorn your personal items with more than a thousand bird- and insect-themed stickers, create gorgeous artwork and stationery, or simply enjoy this book as an exquisite keepsake.

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