| Author | Redfern, M. |
| Year | 1995 |
| Title | Insects and Thistles |
| ISBN | 0 85546 297 3 |
| Series | Naturalists' Handbooks |
| Type | Book/Report |
| Source | Naturalists' Handbooks, No 4, Second (revised) edition, 70pp, The Richmond Publishing Co. Ltd |
| Illustrations | Colour paintings and line drawings |
| Review (by Malcolm Storey) | The fauna of thistles: arthropods inside thistle heads, insect larvae and pupae inside stems and roots, insect larvae and pupae in leaves, insects on the outside of the plant: hemiptera (adults and nymphs), lepidoptera (adults), diptera (adults), coleoptera (adults and larvae). |
| Examine | Stereo Microscope |
| Notes & Purpose | Status | Taxon | English | Classification |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| For identification | Current | COLEOPTERA | beetles | Animalia |
| For identification | Current | DIPTERA | two-winged flies | Animalia |
| For identification | Current | LEPIDOPTERA | butterflies and moths | Animalia |
| For identification | Current | HEMIPTERA | bugs | Animalia |
| Current | Cardueae | “thistles” | Plantae: Asterales: Asteraceae |
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