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Here are some of our team’s top picks for invertebrate-themed books, websites and further resources.
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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
Respect the Insect by Jules Howard
Where are all the Christmas beetles? by Suzanne Houghton
My little world by Julia Cooke and Marjorie Crosby-Fairall
Eyes on flies by Dr Bry the Fly Guy
A beetle is shy by Dianna Hutts Aston and Sylvia Long
First encyclopedia of Australian wildlife by Steve Parrish
The snail and the whale by Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler
Rachel Carson and her book that the changed the world by Laurie Lawlor, illustrated by Laura Beingessner
Slim and Flash - The garden lizards by Katherine Morris (lots of invertebrates featured and alternative parenting strategies for mums! 😉)
Do not lick this book by Idan Ben-Barak and Julian Frost (not about invertebrates, but so good!)
Our bugs by Bronwyn Bancroft
Zoom the busy dragonfly by Michelle Coleman and Rohini Chakraborty
Big bug, little bug by Paul Stickland
First field guide to Australian insects and spiders by Steve Parish
Sharing a Shell by Julia Donaldson and Lydia Monks
Bijil Ba Wudhi Deberra - Bijil and Moths by Aunty Loraine Padgham
Ingenious Insects by Sarah Allen
Illumibugs by Barbara Taylor and Carnovsky
Game - Bug Bingo by Christine Berrie
Bonkers About Beetles by Owen Davey
The Book of Australian Minibeasts by Charles Hope
Invertebrates have no Backbone by Sarah Ridley
Unseen Worlds by Hélène Rajcak and Damien Laverdunt
Searching for Cicadas by Lesley Gibbes and Judy Watson
Wonderful Wasps by Katrina Germein
Saving the Lord Howe Island Stick Insect By Rohan Cleave
Incy-Wincy Spider by Igloo Books
There’s a Zoo in my Backyard by Deanna Henderson
One Little Dung Beetle by Rhian Williams
The Bee Squad by Judy Friedlander