Miniature Lives: Identifying Insects in Your Home and Garden

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Miniature Lives provides a range of simple strategies that people can use to identify and learn moreabout the insects in their homes and gardens. Featuring a step-by-step, illustrated identification keyand colour photographs, the book guides the reader through the basics of entomology (the studyof insects). Simple explanations, amusing analogies and quirky facts convey information on diet,lifecycle, habitat and risks in a way that is both interesting and easy to understand. Identifying aninsect using field guides or internet searches can be daunting Miniature Lives allows the reader toidentify an insect without having to capture or touch it.

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"This indispensable guide to insect-watching will fill an important role in insect conservation and as a reference work, as it introduces new generations to the diverse, secretive, often beautiful and always intriguing miniature lives of insects."--Densey Cline

Author Bio

Michelle Gleeson is an entomologist and since 2005 has operated her own business, Bugs Ed., which educates around 10 000 people across Queensland, Australia each year on the wonderful world of insects. She is also an Adjunct Industry Fellow at The University of Queenslands School of Biological Sciences, collaborating on field research projects and outreach programs. Through her work, she takes complex concepts of entomology and conveys them to people in a way that is interesting, insightful and easily understood.