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BOOK NOTICES 



The encyclopedia of land invertebrate behaviour, by R. & K. Preston-Mafham, 

 London, Blandford (Cassell), 1993, 320 pages, hardback, £30.— This very readable 

 and entertaining book covers insects, spiders, molluscs and other land invertebrates. 

 It is divided into chapters on sexual behaviour, egg-laying, parental care, feeding and 

 defence. It is illustrated throughout with the excellent colour photographs for which 

 the authors are renowned, together with numerous line drawings and diagrams. The 

 whole gamut of behaviour is covered, with examples selected from species from around 

 the world. An extensive bibliography is also given. 



Caterpillars: ecological and evolutionary constraints on foraging, edited by N. E. 

 Stamp and T. M. Casey, London, Chapman and Hall, 1993, xiv + 588 pages, 

 hardback, £39. — Seventeen chapters by nineteen international contributors examine 

 the ecology of caterpillars. Part 1 covers foraging: the effects of temperature, nutrition, 

 circumventing plant defences, interactions between species, predators, parasitoids and 

 body size. Part 2 looks at evolutionary consequences: crypsis, aposematic warnings, 

 sociality and ant mutualism. Part 3 concludes with environmental variation: population 

 dynamics, seasonality, climate and other factors affecting foraging. 



Wood: decay, pests and protection, by R. A. Eaton and M. D. C. Hale, London, 

 Chapman and Hall, 1993, x + 546 pages, hardback, £70. — A very detailed analysis 

 of wood, its decay, its attackers, its preservation and its protection. Five of its 22 

 chapters consider insects attacking wood: the biology of wood-boring insects; 

 taxonomy and worldwide distribution of pests; beetles; termites, and other wood- 

 boring insects. 



A directory for entomologists, by M. Colvin and D. Reavey, Amateur Entomologists' 

 Society, 2nd revised edition, 1993, 62 pages, paperback, £2.40. — This is an extended 

 and updated version of the 1989 edition. It contains names and addresses of all the 

 national organizations that entomologists should need: national and local societies, 

 special interest groups, recording schemes, field courses, grants, libraries, periodicals, 

 museums, exhibitions, butterfly farms, trade fairs and entomological traders. 



Dead wood matters: the ecology and conservation of saproxylic invertebrates in 

 Britain, edited by K. J. Kirby and C. M. Drake, Proceedings of a British Ecological 

 Society Meeting held at Dunham Massey Park on 24 April 1992, Peterborough, English 

 Nature, 1993, 106 pages, comb-binding, £9. — Dead wood is one of the greatest 

 resources for invertebrates in a forest and many of the rarest and most threatened 

 species in Europe depend on it. The papers in this book deal with the history of 

 Britain's dead wood fauna and how British sites compare with those on the Continent. 

 Recent studies on both woodland and parkland dead wood habitats are presented. 



Among papers on what saproxylic invertebrates are, fossil evidence, the European 

 context, historic parklands and commercial forestry are articles on the liability of 

 landowners having large old trees on their land, ideas on positive management for 

 saproxylic invertebrates, a conservation guide for entomological investigation and 

 an invertebrate conservation code for dealing with storm-damaged woodland. 



