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| List Of Color Plates | |
| List Of Boxes | |
| Acknowledgments For Vignettes | |
| Prefaces | |
| The Importance And Diversity Of Insects | |
| What Is Entomology? | |
| The Importance Of Insects | |
| Insect Biodiversity | |
| Insects In Popular Culture And Commerce | |
| Insects As Food | |
| Insect Conservation | |
| External Anatomy | |
| The Cuticle | |
| Segmentation And Tagmosis | |
| The Head | |
| The Thorax | |
| The Abdomen | |
| Internal Anatomy And Physiology | |
| Muscles And Locomotion | |
| The Nervous System And Co-Ordination | |
| The Endocrine System And The Function Of Hormones | |
| The Circulatory System | |
| The Tracheal System And Gas Exchange | |
| The Gut, Digestion And Nutrition | |
| The Excretory System And Waste Disposal | |
| Reproductive Organs | |
| Sensory Systems And Behavior | |
| Mechanical Stimuli | |
| Thermal Stimuli | |
| Chemical Stimuli | |
| Insect Vision | |
| Insect Behavior | |
| Reproduction | |
| Bringing The Sexes Together | |
| Courtship | |
| Sexual Selection | |
| Copulation | |
| Diversity In Genitalic Morphology | |
| Sperm Storage, Fertilization And Sex Determination | |
| Sperm Competition | |
| Oviparity (Egg-Laying) | |
| Ovoviviparity And Viviparity | |
| Atypical Modes Of Reproduction | |
| Physiological Control Of Reproduction | |
| Insect Development And Life Histories | |
| Growth | |
| Life-History Patterns And Phases | |
| Process And Control Of Molting | |
| Voltinism | |
| Diapause | |
| Dealing With Environmental Extremes | |
| Migration | |
| Polymorphism And Polyphenism | |
| Age-Grading | |
| Environmental Effects On Development | |
| Climate And Insect Distributions | |
| Insect Relationships | |
| Phylogenetics | |
| The Extant Hexapods | |
| Protura (Proturans), Collembola (Springtails), Diplura (Diplurans) | |
| Class Insecta (True Insects) | |
| Insect Biogeography And Evolution | |
| Insect Biogeography | |
| The Antiquity Of Insects | |
| Were The First Insects Aquatic Or Terrestrial? | |
| Evolution Of Wings | |
| Evolution Of Metamorphosis | |
| Insect Diversification | |
| Insect Diversification In The Pacific | |
| Ground-Dwelling Insects | |
| Insects Of Litter And Soil | |
| Insects And Dead Trees Or Decaying Wood | |
| Insects And Dung | |
| Insect-Carrion Interactions | |
| Insect-Fungal Interactions | |
| Cavernicolous Insects | |
| Environmental Monitoring Using Ground-Dwelling Hexapods | |
| Aquatic Insects | |
| Taxonomic Distribution And Terminology | |
| The Evolution Of Aquatic Lifestyles | |
| Aquatic Insects And Their Oxygen Supplies | |
| The Aquatic Environment | |
| Environmental Monitoring Using Aquatic Insects | |
| Functional Feeding Groups | |
| Insects Of Temporary Waterbodies | |
| Insects Of The Marine, Intertidal And Littoral Zones | |
| Insects And Plants | |
| Coevolutionary Interactions Between Insects And Plants | |
| Phytophagy (Or Herbivory) | |
| Insects And Plant Reproductive Biology | |
| Insects That Live Mutualistically In Specialized Plant Structures | |
| Insect Societies | |
| Subsociality In Insects | |
| Eusociality In Insects | |
| Inquilines And Parasites Of Social Insects | |
| Evolution And Maintenance Of Eusociality | |
| Success Of Eusocial Insects | |
| Insect Predation And Parasitism | |
| Prey/ Host Location | |
| Prey/Host Acceptance And Manipulation | |
| Prey/Host Selection And Specificity | |
| Population Biology - Predator/Parasitoid And Prey/Host Abundance | |
| The Evolutionary Success Of Insect Predation And Parasitism | |
| Insect Defense | |
| Defense By Hiding | |
| Secondary Lines Of Defense | |
| Mechanical Defenses | |
| Chemical Defenses | |
| Defense By Mimicry | |
| Collective Defenses In Gregarious And Social Insects | |
| Medical And Veterinary Entomology | |
| Insect Nuisance And Phobia | |
| Venoms And Allergens | |
| Insects As Causes And Vectors Of Disease | |
| Generalized Disease Cycles | |
| Pathogens | |
| Forensic Entomology | |
| Pest Management | |
| Insects As Pests | |
| The Effects Of Insecticides | |
| Integrated Pest Management (IPM) | |
| Chemical Control | |
| Biological Control | |
| Host-Plant Resistance To Insects | |
| Physical Control | |
| Cultural Control | |
| Pheromones And Other Insect Attractants | |
| Genetic Manipulation Of Insect Pests | |
| Methods In Entomology: Collecting, Preservation, Curation And Identification | |
| Collection | |
| Preservation And Curation | |
| Identification | |
| Glossary Of Entomological And Selected Technical Terms | |
| Reference Guide To Orders | |
| Index | |
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