Synopses & Reviews
Extensively revised and reorganized, the second edition of
Introduction to Insect Biology and Diversity serves as an ideal text for courses in general entomology with laboratory sections. Written for students who have completed an introductory course in biology, it provides an in-depth treatment of both the biology of insects and their classification, including keys for identification for over four hundred families. The common insects of North America are discussed as well as species found elsewhere in the world.
Parts I and II provide reading material for lectures: Part I: Insects as Organisms, covers morphology, physiology, and behavior, including social behavior. Part II: Insect Ecology, begins with population biology and includes chapters on insects in relation to their environments and pest management. Part III, Insect Diversity, provides source material for the laboratory. The classification of insects, their evolution, and fossil record are discussed first, followed by coverage of each order in terms of general biology and ecology, keys for identification of families, and, in some chapters, discussion of the biologies of families. All insect orders and over four hundred families of insects are treated.
This second edition features new chapters on population biology, insects and microbes, pest management, and methods for making an insect collection. It is illustrated with new line drawings by Barbara Boole Daly and many new photographs, including 48 in color, by Edward S. Ross. A unique feature in a text of this kind, these color photographs allow students to witness a variety of life forms and habits that they normally would not have the opportunity to observe in nature.
Description
Includes bibliographical references (p. 631-663) and index.
Table of Contents
PART ONE INSECTS AS ORGANISMS
1. Introduction
2. The Insect Body
3. The Integument
4. Continuity of the Generations: Development and Reproduction
5. Maintenance and Movement
6. Reception of Stimuli and Integration of Activities
7. Social Relationships
PART TWO INSECT ECOLOGY
8. Population Biology
9. Diversity and Adaptations of Insects in Selected Habitats
10. Insects and Vascular Plants
11. Entomophagous Insects
12. Insects and Vertebrates
13. Insects and Microbes
14. Pest Management
PART THREE INSECT DIVERSITY
15. An Evolutionary Perspective of the Insecta
16. Key to the Classes and Orders of Common Hexapodous Arthropods
17. The Parainsecta: Collembola and Protura
18. The Entognatha: Diplura
19. The Apterygota: Archeognatha and Thysanura
20. Ephemeroptera
21. Odonata
22. Blattodea
23. Mantodea
24. Isoptera
25. Grylloblattodea
26. Dermaptera
27. Plecoptera
28. Embiidina
29. Orthoptera
30. Phasmatodea
31. Zoraptera
32. Psocoptera
33. Phthiraptera
34. Hemiptera
35. Thysanoptera
36. Megaloptera
37. Raphidioptera
38. Neuroptera
39. Coleoptera
40. Strepsiptera
41. Mecoptera
42. Diptera
43. Siphonaptera
44. Lepidoptera
45. Trichoptera
46. Hymenoptera
47. Collection and Preservation
Glossary
References Cited
Indexes
Taxonomic Index
Subject Index