Smaller, gentler and less intimidating than the black and yellow social wasps, the solitary wasps are attractive because of their bright colours and their fascinating behaviour. A female wasp will construct a nest, excavating it from wood or sand or building it from mud. She provisions the nest with prey, hunting down a suitable creature, perhaps a caterpillar or a fly, which she will paralyse before dragging it home to the nest. She lays her egg on the paralysed prey, and the larva when it hatches feeds on the prey. On a sunny day it is easy to observe the apparently purposeful behaviour of female wasps as they prepare their nests and stock them with food for the next generation.
New discoveries are made every year about the distribution and behaviour of British solitary wasps. This book offers ideas for investigations and describes techniques. It includes identification keys to the British species, together with a one page field guide and a guessing guide based on colour, prey type and nest type, to help wasp-watchers to identify their insects without killing them.
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Descrizione libro Condizione: Good. Hopkins, Anthony J. (illustratore). Volume 3. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has soft covers. Clean from markings. In good all round condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,250grams, ISBN:0855462957. Codice articolo 9810865
Descrizione libro Condizione: Good. Hopkins, Anthony J. (illustratore). Volume 3. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has soft covers. Clean from markings. In good all round condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,250grams, ISBN:0855462957. Codice articolo 9810867
Descrizione libro Paperback. Condizione: Fine. Hopkins, Anthony J. (illustratore). Second Edition. A paperback booklet in fine condition, dated 2005, Second edition revised. Naturalists' Handbooks 3 with plates by Anthony J. Hopkins. Codice articolo 063508
Descrizione libro Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. Hopkins, Anthony J. (illustratore). The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. Codice articolo GOR005362918