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Captive invertebrates : a guide to their biology and husbandry /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Frye, Fredric L.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Malabar, Fla. : Krieger Pub. Co., 1992.
Edition:Original edition.
Subjects:
Animals, Laboratory.
Invertebrates.
Table of Contents:
  • Chapter 1. Caging
  • Accommodations for terrestrial invertebrates
  • Accommodations for arboreal invertebrates
  • Accommodations for aquatic invertebrates
  • Chapter 2. Arachnids
  • Tarantulas and other spiders
  • Scorpions
  • Pseudoscorpions and whip scorpions
  • Sun spiders (solifugids)
  • Chapter 3. Chilopods and diplopods
  • Centipedes
  • Millipedes
  • Chapter 4. Insects
  • Metamorphosis
  • Praying mantises
  • Phasmatid stick and phylliitid leaf insects
  • Tomato hormworms (Sphinx moth larvae)
  • Stag, rhinoceros, and elephant beetles
  • Exotic cockroaches
  • Aquatic insects
  • Chapter 5. Crustaceans
  • Terrestrial and arboreal hermit crabs
  • Aquatic crabs
  • Crayfish
  • Chapter 6. Pulmonates
  • Terrestrial snails and giant banana slugs
  • Chapter 7. Turbellarians
  • Aquatic and terrestrial flatworms
  • Chapter 8. Culture of prey species
  • Earthworms
  • True crickets, mormon crickets, and similar insects
  • Mealworms (meal beetle larvae)
  • Silkworms (mulberry silk moth larvae)
  • Waxworms (wax moth larvae)
  • Fruit fly and housefly culture.