TY - JOUR
AU - Lord, Richard
AB - Beetle . By Adam Dodd, 2016. Reaktion Books. (ISBN: 9781780234885). Paperback. $19.95.



The following four books are part of Reaktion Book's ambitious Animal series, which presents various animals from a natural and cultural history perspective. These exhaustively researched volumes are appropriate for college or advanced high school readers. They would be valuable additions to a classroom library. Each volume is well- illustrated with captivating photographs and includes timelines, extensive end note documentation of the text, a bibliography, a list of associations and websites, and an index.

Beetles, among the oldest, most diverse, and most abundant species on Earth, are really not among the most understood. Classified in the Order Coleoptera (sheath wings), beetles possess chitinous forewings that guard the more fragile hindwings. About 25 percent of all known living species are beetles, with an average of four new species being discovered daily for the past 250 years. Entomologists think we are not …
TI - Animals
JF - The American Biology Teacher
DO - 10.1525/abt.2017.79.3.246
DA - 2017-03-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/university-of-california-press/animals-7LiaqeHwR3
SP - 246
EP - 246
VL - 79
IS - 3
DP - DeepDyve
ER -