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Australian Insects - A Natural History

By Bert Brunet

Everything about insects

Australian Insects - A Natural History records the physical attributes and lifestyle developments that have made life on the Australian continent possible for insects. It reveals a world or worlds that we often glimpse at but rarely stop to consider. Today in Australia there are over 100,000 species crawling, flying, hopping and hurrying across the continent.

their responses to the challenges of this vast and often inhospitable land have been an array of clever adaptations. every major insect group has found a way to live here successfully and some of the world's oldest lineages of insects continue to survive in Australia despite their extinction elsewhere.

The book is divided into two sections: 1. 'The Lives of Insects' describing the natural history of insects; 2. 'Australian Insects' describes the peculiarities of Australian Insects.

There is a glossary, common names index and a scientific names index.

Hard cover and dust jacket. 288 pages. (2010 reprint).  290mm X 223mm. Full colour. RRP: $45.00.