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Book review

P.J. Gullan, P.S. Cranston, The Insects. An Outline of

Entomology, third ed, Blackwell, Oxford, ISBN 1-4051-

1113-5, 2005 (£29.99).

This book was first published in 1994 when theauthors were in Australia; they have now relocated atDavis, California. Since the previous edition, there hasbeen the ‘discovery’ of a new order of insects, named theMantophasmatodea based on specimens from 45 millionyear old amber and now found living in Namibia andother parts of southern Africa. The book is updated inmany ways with more on use of molecular data and newchapters covering insect evolution and phylogeny.

For Crop Protection readers, there is one compre-hensive chapter on Pest Management, covering thedifferent methods that need to be integrated into control

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programmes, with good up-to-date examples. Thechapter on methods of collecting and preserving insectsfor identification is important, when few can study thedetails of taxonomy. Apart from colour plates and clearline drawings, some of the tangential information ispresented in boxes as in previous editions. The book iswell presented and will be a good source of informationfor students and others who need a more overall view ofentomology.

Graham MatthewsDepartment of Biological Sciences,

Internation Pesticide Application Research Centre,

Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine,

Silwood Park, Ascot, SL5 7PY, UK