Southern African Insects and their World

Published by Struik, 2000, softcover, laminated pictorial wrappers, liberally illustrated with full-colour photographs; some diagrams. 88 pages, index, condition: as new.

 "Southern African Insects and their World illuminates the infinitely varied, often colourful, always fascinating array of arthropods - bugs, butterflies, beetles and other six-legged creatures - that inhabit southern Africa. The book is divided into an introductory overview and seven thematic chapters that describe, in easy-to-understand text complemented by illustrations and by a wealth of full-colour photographs, the physical nature of insects, the various groups into which they are classified, their mating and breeding habits, their search for food and their fight for survival. A special section is devoted to the social insects - colonial termites, bees, wasps and ants - that have perfected the art of communal living and which, in many instances, rank among Nature's finest architects. The final chapter covers the basic do's and don'ts of building up a home insect collection.".