British Beetles - Their Homes and Habits - Including Chapters on How to Identify, Collect and Study

Frederick Warne & Co, 1933

This book's intention is chiefly to encourage the study of the life histories, about which so little is known, of the large Order of British Beetles. Of the 3630 British beetles now known there are many about whose life histories we know nothing, and more, new to Britain, must remain to be discovered, not to mention those new to science. One of the advantages of the study of beetles, over that of butterflies and moths, is that it can be carried out on any day of the year, and in almost any situation. The book includes photographic plates and drawings to aid identification...