Britain's Spiders
A Field Guide - Fully Revised and Updated Second Edition
1st Edition
Published on 3. November 2020
496 pages
978-0-691-21180-0 (ISBN)
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Princeton
United States
Publishing group
De Gruyter
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Edition type
Digital original
Product notice
Fixed format
Illustrations
700+ color photos
700+ color photos
ISBN-13
978-0-691-21180-0 (9780691211800)
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Lawrence Bee | Geoff Oxford | Helen Smith
Britain's Spiders
A Field Guide - Fully Revised and Updated Second Edition
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11/2020
Princeton University Press
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Lawrence Bee is an ecological consultant and educator and the author of the Field Studies Council's Guide to House and Garden Spiders. Geoff Oxford, a biologist who taught at the University of York for more than four decades, is an authority on spider colour variation and speciation. Helen Smith is a conservation biologist who leads the conservation programme for the UK's endangered Fen Raft Spider. This book is produced in collaboration with the British Arachnological Society, of which all three authors are active members.
Content
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Foreword
- Introduction
- Spider anatomy - naming the parts
- Glossary
- Spider biology
- Anatomy - a brief overview
- Silk production
- Webs
- Retreats
- Courtship and mating
- Egg-sacs
- Development and growth
- Dispersal
- Longevity
- Parasites
- Food capture and feeding
- Coloration
- Spiders and people
- When, where and how to find spiders
- Essential equipment
- Additional equipment
- Collecting techniques
- IDENTIFYING SPIDERS
- Guide to spider families and genera
- Guide to webs
- Guide to egg-sacs
- Introduction to the species accounts
- THE SPECIES ACCOUNTS (see also the following two pages)
- Accidental imports
- Working in the field
- Recording spiders
- Legislation and conservation
- Legislation
- Red Lists
- British Rarity Status
- Amber List
- List of British spiders
- Further reading and useful websites
- The British Arachnological Society
- Acknowledgements and photographic credits
- Index
- Alphabetical list of genera with species accounts
- Blank Page
