Meticulously researched and illustrated with thousands of photographs taken in the field, Insects is a landmark reference for any naturalist or entomologist. The illustrated picture keys allow quick identification of insect orders, families and individual insects. Comprehensive chapter introductions discuss the form and biology of each order--back cover.

The wingless insects : springtails, diplurans and bristletails -- Mayflies, dragonflies and damselflies : the "old winged" insects -- Stoneflies -- Cockroaches, termites, mantids and other orthopteroids -- Grasshoppers, crickets and katydids -- True bugs and other hemipteroids -- Butterflies and moths -- Caddisflies -- Lacewings, antlions, fishflies and related insects -- Beetles -- Flies, scorpionflies and fleas -- Sawflies, wasps, bees and ants -- Non-insect arthropods -- Observing, collecting and photographing insects.