"A Chanticleer Press edition." Includes index.

Color plates -- Caterpillars -- Water nymphs and larvae -- Aphidlike insects -- Flealike insects -- Earwigs and silverfish -- Diving beetles and water bugs -- Hopperlike insects -- Plant bugs, toad bugs, and cockroaches -- Weevils -- Beetles -- Grasshoppers, crickets, and cicadas -- Mantids and walkingsticks -- Ants and termites -- Lacewings and other long-winged insects -- Dragonflies and damselflies -- Flies -- Bees, wasps, and kin -- Moths -- Butterflies -- Ticks, mites, and scorpions -- Spiders -- Orders of insects -- Major orders of arachnids -- Text descriptions -- Appendices. An extensive use of color photographs makes this a fine guide for identifying insects. Spiders, bugs, moths, butterflies, beetles, bees, flies, dragonflies, grasshoppers, and many other insects are detailed in more than 700 full-color photographs visually arranged by shape and color. Descriptive text includes measurements, diagnostic details, and information on habitat, range, feeding habits, sounds or songs, flight period, web construction, life cycle, behaviors, folklore, and environmental impact. An illustrated key to the insect orders and detailed drawings of the parts of insects, spiders, and butterflies supplement this extensive coverage.