Miniature Lives

Name: Miniature Lives
Brand: NewSouth Books
SKU: 9781486301379
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Identifying Insects in Your Home and Garden

By Michelle Gleeson

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Miniature Lives by Michelle Gleeson delves into the fascinating world of insects, exploring their intricate roles and behaviours in our ecosystems. The book reveals the often-overlooked complexities and incredible diversity of these tiny creatures, shedding light on their importance to both nature and human life. Through engaging narrative and vivid detail, it invites readers to appreciate the unseen wonders of the miniature world.
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You might enjoy this book if you're fascinated by the intricate and often overlooked world of insects and other tiny creatures. It offers a captivating insight into their roles in the ecosystem, highlighting their surprising behaviours and environmental significance. Ideal for nature enthusiasts who love discovering hidden worlds right under their noses.

Miniature Lives

Description

Miniature Lives provides a range of simple strategies that people can use to identify and learn more about the insects in their homes and gardens. Featuring a step-by-step, illustrated identification key and colour photographs, the book guides the reader through the basics of entomology (the study of 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 an insect using field guides or internet searches can be daunting. Miniature Lives allows the reader to identify an insect without having to capture or touch it.

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Miniature Lives is praised for being an essential guide for insect enthusiasts, serving as both a vital tool for insect conservation and an informative reference work. It introduces readers to the diverse, secretive, and often beautiful world of insects, encouraging a new appreciation for these small creatures.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781486301379

Publisher: CSIRO Publishing

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 01 March 2016

Country: Australia

Imprint: CSIRO Publishing

Illustration: 247 full colour photographs, 97 illustrations

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 23.0mm

Width: 148.0mm

Height: 215.0mm

Weight: 650g

Pages: 344

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Education & Reference Michelle Gleeson Non-Fiction Science & Nature

About the Author

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 Queensland’s 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.