Living Insects

The Australian Naturalist Library

by R. D. Hughes

Book Club Associates, 1975, ISBN 0002114272, colour and black and white photographic plates, black and white line drawings and illustrative diagrams and graphs, hardcover with illustrated boards, dustjacket

Very Good Condition, a little edge and shelf wear, a little rubbing and bumping to edges and corners, no inscriptions, dustjacket shows a little edge and shelf wear with a little rubbing and chipping (see photographs)

“Insects are the most numerous of all visible forms of animal life.  Yet, because there is such a great variety of them, comparatively little is known about their natural history.  For example out of the 55,000 species which have been recorded in Australia alone, only a fraction of one per cent have been studied in detail and often we are virtually ignorant about even the commonest insects which are seen every day.
Insects grow, live and behave in a great variety of ways – even within the same species the young insect can have a totally different appearance and life style from the adult, as in the case of a butterfly or cicada.  Their different body structures, methods of flight, feeding and breeding are all engrossing and absorbing topics.”