Which New Zealand Insect
By (Author) Andrew Crowe
Penguin Group (NZ)
Penguin Group (NZ)
13th August 2002
New Zealand
General
Non Fiction
Reference works
595.70993
Short-listed for New Zealand Post Children's Book Awards: Non-Fiction Award 2003
Paperback
128
Width 167mm, Height 231mm, Spine 11mm
334g
Displaying more than 650 colour photographs, this book is both a field guide and a a gallery. It covers native and introduced insects of the home, garden and farm, forest, mountains, lakes and streams - an often overlooked side of New Zealand wildlife.
Andrew Crowe is a best-selling author with a special interest in helping make nature accessible to beginners of all ages. He has written over 40 nature books covering seashells, insects, spiders, birds and other animals and plants. Andrew has won numerous New Zealand book awards, including the Margaret Mahy Medal in 2009 for his overall contribution to children's literature and the Ashton Wylie Award in 2005 for a biography for teenagers on the Dalai Lama. His latest book, Pathway of the Birds- The Voyaging Achievements of Maori and their Polynesian Ancestors (Bateman), received 4 book awards in 2019.