Beetles (New Naturalist 136), Richard Jones

Beetles (New Naturalist 136), Richard JonesNew Hardback British Wildlife Beetles are arguably the most diverse organisms in the world, with nearly half a million beetle species described and catalogued in our museums, more than any other type of living thing. This astonishing species diversity is matched by a similar diversity in shape, form, size, life history, ecology, physiology and behaviour. Beetles occur everywhere, and do everything. Richard Jones' groundbreaking New Naturalist volume

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