Advance praise for "Flies"
"Stephen A. Marshall has delivered one of the most beautiful and
useful accounts of insect life ever written."
-- Edward O. Wilson, Research Professor Emeritus, Harvard
University
Meticulously researched and illustrated with more than 2000
color photographs taken by the author, Flies is a landmark
reference book that will be indispensable to any naturalist,
biologist or entomologist. Most photographs in this encyclopedic
reference were taken in the field and show the insects in their
natural environment. All of the world's fly families are included,
with photographic coverage spanning the range from common deer
flies and fruit flies through to deadly tsetse flies and malaria
mosquitoes, with thousands of spectacular species such as exotic
stalk eyed flies, giant robber flies and hedgehog flies in
between.
"Flies" is broken up into three parts: Life Histories, Habits
and Habitats of Flies; Diversity; and Identifying and Studying
Flies. The 20 pages of profusely illustrated keys linked to the
unprecedented photographic coverage of the world's fly families and
subfamilies enable the reader to identify most flies quickly and
accurately, and to readily access information about each family as
well as hundreds of distinctive genera and species.
"Flies" includes:
Part 1: Life Histories, Habits and Habitats of Flies
Chapter 1 -- Life Histories of Flies
Chapter 2 -- Flies, Plants and Fungi
Chapter 3 -- Flies and Vertebrates
Chapter 4 -- Flies and Invertebrates
Part 2: Diversity
Chapter 5 -- Origins and Distribution of the Diptera
Chapter 6 -- The Lower Diptera
Chapter 7 -- The Lower Brachycera and Empidoidea
Chapter 8 -- The Higher Brachycera or Cyclorrhapha
Part 3: Identifying and Studying Flies
Chapter 9 -- Collecting, Preserving and Rearing Flies
Chapter 10 -- Identifying Fly Families
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