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Inspiration Through Nature

Book category: Insects

Norfolk Wildlife – A Calendar and Site Guide

Adrian M Riley

Discover the wild side of Norfolk with this essential wildlife guide  Norfolk is one of the UK’s top destinations for nature lovers, thanks to its diverse landscapes, stunning coastline and …

Book cover for Small Game Hunter, featuring illustrated insects and green foliage

Small Game Hunter

Peter Smithers

Small Game Hunter is a captivating biography shaped by the author’s lifelong encounters with insects and spiders. It spans moths drawn to light traps and the graceful pursuit of dragonflies …

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An Introduction to the Butterflies of Cyprus

Adrian M Riley

A photographic pocket guide designed to help you identify both resident and migratory butterflies found on the island. Cyprus is home to a wide variety of species. This compact guide …

The Butterfly Collection

Richard Harrington

A Poem for every British Butterfly. Butterflies flutter up from these colourful pages – beautiful, delicate, almost mythical creatures. This is the first book to celebrate each of the 58 …

British and Irish Butterflies

Adrian Riley

The complete Identification, Field and Site Guide to the Species, Subspecies and Forms. A wonderful butterfly book, the first to cover all the adult forms, including subspecies, in the British …

Dragons and Damsels

Adrian Riley

An identification guide to the British and Irish Odonata. This is a comprehensive and user-friendly photographic identification guide to all species, sexes and forms of British and Irish dragon- and …

Bee Tiger

Philip Howse

The Death’s Head Hawk-Moth through the Looking-glass. Philip Howse, an expert on mimicry, takes us on a tour de force of the biology and rich folk lore of this intriguing …

front cover of comic-strip science book SWAT!

SWAT! – A Fly’s Guide to Staying Alive

Mike Barfield

With a colourful comic-strip style, SWAT! might look like pure entertainment, but it’s secretly packed with real scientific facts about flying insects. This clever mix of humour and education makes …

African Queens and their Kin – A Darwinian Odyssey

David A S Smith

This book is the only biography of the African Queen butterfly for 40 years. Dr David A.S. Smith, PhD, a world authority in his field, wrote it in an engaging …