By Dave Hubble
Leaf beetles are one of many biggest teams of beetles, with tens of millions of species around the world and round 280 in Britain. They belong usually to the relations Chrysomelidae, but in addition to 2 small heavily comparable households, the Megalopodidae and Orsodacnidae. This ebook offers a accomplished review with special and available assurance of the normal background, ecology and biology of leaf beetles.
Topics disguise the existence heritage of leaf beetles, biology, their setting, ordinary enemies and interactions with people. there's a thorough dialogue approximately id of British species, together with element at the juvenile levels (eggs, larvae, pupae) and a concise key to adults. A bankruptcy is devoted to check ideas and fabrics. The publication is illustrated all through with color photos and line drawings.
Leaf beetles is a crucial source for entomology scholars and educators, naturalists, nature conservationists, these taken with agriculture, horticulture and the administration of saved produce.
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