Agriculture Canada

The ground spiders, or Gnaphosidae, are stealthy hunters. They live in plant litter, in crevices on tree trunks, and among stones. Most are nocturn...

Flies of the family Tabanidae, commonly known as horse flies and deer flies, are well known to anyone who spends at least a moderate time outdoors ...

Arthropods form a large and fundamental component of nearly every community on earth. There are more species of arthropods than all other animals a...

Anyone who has spent time working or vacationing in the forested regions of North America is probably familiar with the family Buprestidae, or flat...

Throughout Canada mosquitoes are familiar to everyone as biting pests. In addition to their importance as a nuisance, a few species occasionally cr...

The Miridae, or plant bugs, are of great economic importance to man because they feed on plants, or prey on other arthropods. The bugs may also act...

Part 9 in this series provides a key to spider families, a detailed treatment of the crab spiders (families Philodromidae and Thomisidae) as repres...

This book offers the first synthesis of much scattered information on spittlebugs; not just the first in Canada, or in North America, but apparentl...

This is the first volume of a projected three-part series treating the superfamily Curculionoidea of Canada and Alaska. This first volume treats al...

The spiders treated in this book are the only Canadian representatives of a group known as the three-clawed hunters (Gertsch 1979). All of the Cana...