Insects

by Michael Chinery

A handy guide to identifying bugs, beetles, bees, and much more. With this clear photographic guide in your rucksack, no insect encountered will escape identification! This fascinating little guide teaches you how to identify 240 insects found in Britain and Europe. Each insect entry includes a photograph of the insect and details of distinguishing features which can help with identification; information on size, habitat, geographical range, and months when the insect can be spotted; and the names of similar species with which the insect could be confused and details of the differences between them. This clear photographic guide fits neatly into the pocket or rucksack and is perfect for taking on walks.

Genres: Animals, Reference

255 pages, Paperback

First published August 1, 1979

About the author

Michael Chinery is an English naturalist.

He studied in Cambridge where he graduated in natural sciences and anthropology.

He edits Cecidology, the journal of the British Plant Gall Society.

Books:
- Animals in the zoo,
- Animal communities,
- Britain's Plant Galls. A photographic
guide (2011) WildGuides. Old Basing, Hampshire. ISBN 978 190365743 0
- Purnell's concise Encyclopedia of Nature,
Forests, Kingfisher, London, 1992 ISBN 0-86272-915-7


Chinery is well known for his books on insects :

Insects of Britain and Northern Europe, 3rd edition, Collins field guide. ISBN 0-00-219918-1
Insects of Britain and Western Europe, Collins Guide, 1986 (reprinted in 1991)
Butterflies of Britain and Europe, Collins Wildlife Trust Guides.

Reviews

[Sophie Crane · Rating 5 out of 5]

The Collins Gem series are great little books...perfect to put in your pocket when off on a walk and very helpful for the enthusiastic amateur!

[David Hurst · Rating 2 out of 5]

Too basic. Suitable for kids, but a phone app is more useful

[Cameron Gillard · Rating 2 out of 5]

a good book but not by much