Sasol First Field Guide to Insects of Southern Africa provides fascinating insight into the insects of the region. Full-colour photographs and easy-to-read text will help the beginner and budding naturalist to explore the more common insect groups that occur in southern Africa, discover where they are found, and learn about their behaviour and unusual features.
First Field Guide to Insects of Southern Africa
Sasol First Field Guide to Insects of Southern Africa provides fascinating insight into the insects of the region.
This field guide introduces readers to the little-known world of the colourful dragonflies and damselflies of southern Africa. The introduction explores dragonfly characteristics and biology, and offers useful advice for...
Sasol First Field Guide to Spiders & Scorpions of Southern Africa provides fascinating insight into the arachnids of the region.
Pests and diseases As is the case with all southern African plants, indigenousG pests and parasites affect aloe plants. Fortunately it is comparatively easy to control most of the insect infestations that are normally found on aloes.
This series of natural history field guides has been developed in the hope that young people and anyone with a budding interest in natural history will take up the challenge...
Because animals like insects, spiders and scorpions have no backbones, they are known as invertebrates. They are of the order Arthropoda, and are classed as arachnids (Arachnida), and have jointed legs, which come straight out of the ...
ground; sometimes hawks flying insects. Nesting: Year round, mainly in spring and summer. Nest is untidy. Lays two to five eggs which hatch after about two weeks. Both sexes incubateG and feed young. Notes: Most cosmopolitan bird in the ...
Status: Common non-breeding summer migrantG to southern Africa. Food: Insects, which it hunts down while flying. Similar species: Males of the rare Red-footed Falcon have dark underwing coverts and females are plain rufousG on the head ...
This field guide introduces the little-documented world of parasitic and carnivorous plants, a category of flora that is often overlooked. This title explains how these unusual plants grow and reproduce,...