Grouped by Mammals, Rodents, Birds, Invertebrates and Flora. Animals like the red fox have adapted very well to live alongside humans and today our urban environments provide plenty of buildings beneath which to make their lairs and an abundance of food, either scavenged or offered to them. The brown rat and house mice, dormouse, bats, house martins, town pigeons, robins, jackdaw and many other birds are a daily sight. Spiders like the zebra spider is an expert at stalking and pouncing on prey and the branching harvestman has antler-like pedipalps which it uses to hold items of food. Then there are the mites, the book scorpion which holds its prey while it eats it alive, the face mite with its slender shape so that it can live inside hair follicles, the silky velvet mite, the flour mite and ticks which cause Lyme disease, human lice, termites, beetles and woodworm, all are photographed in all their glory and curious shapes and colours and hairs and segments and wings and bulging eyes. Our favourite must be the brown horse fly because of his huge iridescent eyes or that nasty little pest the rose aphid also known as the greenfly, but it is often pinkish in colour. Then there are food and timber moulds and rotting pathogenic moulds and environmental bacteria. Controlling them is a matter of understanding their ecological requirements. Big glossy colour photographs, 85 pages, 17.5 x 25.5cm.
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