Table of Contents

Cover Page

Title Page

Editors

Epigraph

FRONTISPIECE

Editors’ Preface

In Memory of Philip S. Corbet 1929-2008

Preface by Former Keeper of Entomology, The Natural History Museum, London

Authors’ Foreword and Acknowledgements

CHAPTER 1 Introduction

CHAPTER 2 The British Species

CHAPTER 3 Habitat Selection and Oviposition

CHAPTER 4 The Egg and the First Two Larval Stadia

CHAPTER 5 The Larva: Survival Under Water

CHAPTER 6 Larval Development and Emergence

CHAPTER 7 Adult Life

CHAPTER 8 Foraging in Flight

CHAPTER 9 Reproductive Behaviour

CHAPTER 10 Odonatology in Britain

APPENDIX 1 Checklist of British Species

APPENDIX 2 Collecting and Photographing Dragonflies

APPENDIX 3 SSSI Criteria Based on Odonata

APPENDIX 4 Distribution Maps for British Species

Glossary

Endnotes

Bibliography

Index

The New Naturalist Library

About the Author

About the Publisher