Bugs alive [[electronic resource] ] : a guide to keeping Australian invertebrates / / Alan Henderson, Deanna Henderson and Jessie Sinclair

• Autore: Henderson Alan
• Pubblicazione: Melbourne, VIC, : Museum Victoria, 2012
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (200 p.)
• Disciplina: 595.0994
• Soggetto topico: Invertebrates - Australia; Animals - Australia
• Altri autori: HendersonDeanna SinclairJessie
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents; Amazing Australian bugs; Where do I get bugs?; What are bugs?; How to use this book; Care Guides; Ants; Beetles; Butterflies and moths; Cockroaches; Crickets and katydids; Grasshoppers; Mantids; Phasmids; True bugs; Wasps; Primitive spiders; Scorpions; Centipedes; Millipedes; Snails and slugs; Housing; Escape prevention; Temperature; Humidity; Lighting; Substrates; Enclosure fit-out; Food and water; Food; Water; Health; Why is my bug sick?; Quarantine; Diseases; Parasites; Physical injuries; Stress; Deficiencies in captivity; Emergency food; Effects of aging; Euthanasia ; Display your invertebratesTips for creating good displays; Gypsum cement; Polystyrene and epoxyresin; Acknowledgements; Authors; Glossary; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: This exciting new title is the first book on keeping Australian invertebrates; previously, only titles on European or American species were available. Bugs Alive contains detailed descriptions (life-cycle, breeding, feeding) of over 90 species, as well as detailed instructions for housing and caring for your bug. Stunning colour photographs and line-art are used extensively throughout the book to display and describe animals and their anatomy, as well as to depict construction of housing and environment.
• Titolo autorizzato: Bugs alive
• ISBN: 1-921833-20-3
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910786445703321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II