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Here are some of our team’s top picks for invertebrate-themed books, websites and further resources.
Dive in to get to know more about our inverts!
Non Fiction Books
Insect Science (FREE e-book)
Gurion Ang & Kathryn Ebert
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The Insect Crisis
Oliver Milman
Silent Earth
Dave Goulson
How to attract Butterflies to your garden
Densey Clyne
A guide to land snails of Australia
John Stanisic, Darryl Potter & Lorelle Stanisic
Australia's incredible insects
Jessa Thurman
The wasp and the orchid
Danielle Clode
A photo guide to common cicadas of the Greater Sydney Region
Dr Nathan Emery
Field Guide - Spiders of Australia
Robert Whyte & Greg Anderson
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A World in a Shell: Snail Stories for a Time of Extinctions
Thom van Dooren
Spirals in Time: The Secret Life and Curious Afterlife of Seashells
Helen Scales
100 Australian butterflies, bees, beetles and bugs
Georgia Angus
Cephalopods of Australia and Sub-Antarctic Territories
Amanda Reid
Field Guide - Dragonflies of Australia
John Hawking & Gunther Theischinger
Field Guide - Stick and Leaf Insects of Australia
Paul D Brock & Jack W Hasenpusch
Field Guide - Butterflies of Australia
Michael F Braby
Bugs Alive! A Guide to Keeping Australian Invertebrates
Alan Henderson, Deanna Henderson & Jessie Sinclair
Marine Decapod Crustacea
Gary CB Poore & Shane T Ahyong
Crabs - A Global Natural History
Peter J. F. Davie
Australian Echinoderms
Maria Byrne & Timothy D O'Hara
An Introduction to Roundworms
Ricardo M. Souza
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Minibeasts – True rulers of our world and the key to our survival
Alan Henderson
Children’s Books
A beetle is shy
Dianna Hutts Aston & Sylvia Long
My little world
Julia Cooke & Marjorie Crosby-Fairall
Eyes on flies
Dr Bry the Fly Guy
Where are all the Christmas beetles?
Suzanne Houghton
Slim and Flash - The garden lizards
Katherine Morris
The snail and the whale
Julia Donaldson & Axel Scheffler
Rachel Carson and her book that the changed the world
Laurie Lawlor, illustrated by Laura Beingessner
First encyclopedia of Australian wildlife
Steve Parrish
Big bug, little bug
Paul Stickland
Our bugs
Bronwyn Bancroft
Zoom the busy dragonfly
Michelle Coleman & Rohini Chakraborty
Do not lick this book
Idan Ben-Barak and Julian Frost
(not about invertebrates, but so good!)
Sharing a Shell
Julia Donaldson & Lydia Monks
Bijil Ba Wudhi Deberra - Bijil and Moths
Aunty Loraine Padgham
First field guide to Australian insects and spiders
Steve Parish
The Book of Australian Minibeasts
Charles Hope
Game - Bug Bingo
Christine Berrie
Bonkers About Beetles
Owen Davey
Illumibugs
Barbara Taylor & Carnovsky
Wonderful Wasps
Katrina Germein
Unseen Worlds
Hélène Rajcak & Damien Laverdunt
Searching for Cicadas
Lesley Gibbes & Judy Watson
Invertebrates have no Backbone
Sarah Ridley
One Little Dung Beetle
Rhian Williams
Incy-Wincy Spider
Igloo Books
There’s a Zoo in my Backyard
Deanna Henderson
Saving the Lord Howe Island Stick Insect
Rohan Cleave
