Project Gutenberg 2025-07-15 Public domain in the USA. 3612 Froggatt, Walter W. (Walter Wilson) 1858 1937 Froggatt, W. W. (Walter Wilson) Froggatt, Walter Wilson Australian insects $aSydney :$bWilliam Brooks & Comany, Limited, $c1907. Peter Becker, Karin Spence and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) "Australian insects" by Walter W. Froggatt is a scientific textbook written in the early 20th century. It surveys Australia’s insect fauna in a clear, engaging way while retaining scholarly rigor, with emphasis on classification, morphology, distribution, and practical economic entomology. Intended for both general readers and students, it proceeds systematically through major orders, illustrating distinctive Australian species and their habits. The opening of the volume sets out the aim to marry popular exposition with scientific accuracy, noting the historical difficulty of scattered, obscure descriptions and the rise of field-based, economically useful entomology. It then outlines rules of classification and naming, comments on Australia’s distinctive, climate-shaped fauna and its affinities, and explains insect structure, metamorphosis, respiration, and senses, followed by a brief review of the sparse local fossil record. The systematic accounts begin with Aptera (springtails and silverfish), then Orthoptera, covering earwigs and cockroaches, and giving an extended, illustrated treatment of termites—their castes, royal chamber, mound forms (including “magnetic” north–south mounds), and key genera. Brief sections introduce web-spinners newly recorded from Australia, book lice, and predatory mantids with their egg masses, before turning to phasmids with striking leaf- and stick-mimicry. The opening closes as it enters the short-horned grasshoppers (Acridiidae), describing their anatomy, oviposition, sound-making, and exemplifying the section with the yellow-winged locust. (This is an automatically generated summary.) https://archive.org/details/australianinsect00frog 20230924120909froggatt 1907 au Reading ease score: 63.0 (8th & 9th grade). Neither easy nor difficult to read. en Insects -- Australia QL Text Category: Science - Biology Category: Science - Earth/Agricultural/Farming Category: Nature/Gardening/Animals 1347432 2025-09-30T08:01:32.638573 text/html 1270803 2025-07-15T19:19:07 text/html 13329587 2025-09-30T08:01:56.631413 application/epub+zip 13344376 2025-09-30T08:01:37.713549 application/epub+zip 613945 2025-09-30T08:01:34.988532 application/epub+zip 14409426 2025-09-30T08:02:08.469358 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 14302558 2025-09-30T08:01:53.576517 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 1036668 2025-09-30T08:01:27.804057 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 1016779 2025-07-15T19:19:07 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 16572 2025-09-30T08:02:08.668366 application/rdf+xml 16152 2025-09-30T08:01:35.420511 image/jpeg 2173 2025-09-30T08:01:35.206502 image/jpeg 11290251 2025-09-30T08:01:33.190536 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://book.klll.cc/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia