Steve Brooks, Steve Cham

Field Guide to the Dragonflies and Damselflies of Great Britain and Ireland (eBook, PDF)

Illustrator: Lewington, Richard

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

An indispensable guide to Great Britain and Ireland's resident and migrant dragonfly and damselfly species. Whizzing over water with metallic bodies and often iridescent wings, dragonflies and damselflies are arguably one of our most overlooked and beautiful insects. This practical guide will help you to distinguish between skimmers and darters, with fascinating species accounts and insect-watching tips. To aid quick and accurate identification, the book also contains more than 280 stunning paintings by renowned artist, Richard Lewington. The 2002 edition was shortlisted for the BP Natural World Book Prize. This updated edition has been fully revised and redesigned to feature full descriptions, ecological notes and distribution maps, as well as a general introduction and regional guide to the best places to watch dragonflies.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks UK
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Juni 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781472982391
• Artikelnr.: 59776298

Autorenporträt

Steve Brooks has been interested in dragonflies since he was young. He was impressed by the voracious dragonfly larvae that ate everything else in the jars he had filled during pond-dipping trips, and by the adult dragonflies later emerging from those same jars lined up on his bedroom windowsill. Steve has been fortunate to pursue this interest in his professional career as a specialist in freshwater insects and environmental change at the Natural History Museum in London, where he is now a Scientific Associate following retirement in 2017. He has published 275 scientific papers and book chapters, many of them on dragonflies, and five books, including the New Naturalist volume Dragonflies with Philip Corbet. Steve is a founder member of the British Dragonfly Society (BDS), a former editor of the Journal of the British Dragonfly Society, and currently serves on the BDS Conservation Committee. He is Associate Editor of Odonatologica.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Life history
Distribution
Dragonfly habitats
Dragonflies and the law
Regional guides
Identification
Introduction to the families
Key to dragonfly larvae
Species descriptions
ZYGOPTERA DAMSELFLIES
Calopterygidae Demoiselles
Lestidae Emerald damselflies
Platycnemididae White-legged damselflies
Coenagrionidae Red damselflies and blue damselflies
ANISOPTERA DRAGONFLIES
Aeshnidae Hawker dragonflies
Gomphidae Club-tailed dragonflies
Cordulegastridae Golden-ringed dragonflies
Corduliidae Emerald dragonflies
Libellulidae Chaser, skimmer and darter dragonflies
Further reading
Addresses
Checklist of Odonata of Great Britain and Ireland
Index