June 2020 Monthly Catalogue Welcome to the June 2020 edition of the NHBS Monthly Catalogue, which lists all new titles added to our website in the last month. With the ongoing pandemic, we have noticed that many publishers have pushed publication dates of books backwards to later this year. Nevertheless, there was a glut of new titles announced. On the bird front, we have confirmation that the long-awaited Helm Field Guide Birds of Argentina and the South-West Atlantic will be published in November by Christopher Helm. Although very early plans suggested this might be a 2-volume set, now that everything has come together this will be a single book, although it will be available in both hardback and paperback, which is something new for the Helm Field Guide range. Another very interesting title for birdwatchers will be Flight Identification of European Passerines and Select Landbirds, due October from WILDGuides. Other noteworthy field guides are Birds of Southern Africa and Their Tracks & Signs, due September from Jacana Publishers, and the brand-new Around the World for Penguins: Where to See All the 18 Penguin Species, which is privately published by the author and follows the same format as his earlier book Around the World for Albatrosses. Whittles Publishing will shortly release The Ring Ouzel: A View from the North York Moors, while Marianne Taylor is writing The Gull Next Door: A Portrait of a Misunderstood Bird, due November from Wild Nature Press. Finally, Oxford University Press has announced the second edition of their textbook Essential Ornithology, which is slated for August. There is also a large number of new entomology titles this month. We are very excited by Army Ants: Nature's Ultimate Social Hunters, due October, which is Harvard University Press's second big ant book this year. An important academic title is Butterfly Biology Systems: Connections and Interactions in Life History and Behaviour, due September from CABI Publishing. More butterflies come in the form of The Butterflies of Middle East: Lebanon, Syria, Israel, Jordan and Egypt (Sinai Peninsula) which is the 15th volume in the ongoing Butterflies of Palaearctic Asia Series from Tshikolovets Publications. Edition Chimaira in Germany will publish the second edition of The Dragonflies of Corfu in June, while Academia in the Czech Republic has just released the second edition of the bilingual Ladybird Beetles (Coccinellidae) of Central Europe. Lastly, Bloomsbury has announced a further four fold-out guides in their new RSPB ID Spotlight series, covering butterflies, moths, bees, and dragonflies & damselflies. New mammal books are Yellowstone Wolves: Science and Discovery in the World’s First National Park, due November from the University of Chicago Press, the second edition of Acoustic Ecology of European Bats from Biotope in France, and the paperback of The Dwarf and Mouse Lemurs of Madagascar: Biology, Behavior and Conservation Biogeography of the Cheirogaleidae, due June from Cambridge University Press. Academic Press has announced two new titles in their Biodiversity of the World: Conservation from Genes to Landscapes series. One on mammals, Tree Kangaroos, and one on reptiles, Galapagos Giant Tortoises, both due November. One further reptile title worth mentioning is the second edition of A Naturalist's Guide to the Reptiles of Sri Lanka, due October from John Beaufoy Publishing. For botanists, there is Peter Wohlleben's The Heartbeat of Trees: Embracing Our Ancient Bond with Forests and Nature, due October from Greystone Books, and a new book that concerns fungus-like plant pathogens: Downy Mildews (Peronosporaceae) and White Blister-Rusts (Albuginaceae) of Wales. On the subject of wildlife conservation there are two interesting titles: Bringing Back the Beaver: The Story of One Man's Quest to Rewild Britain's Waterways, due September from Chelsea Green, and The Disappearance of Butterflies, due October from Polity Press. Readers of environmental history can look out for The History of the World in 100 Animals, due October from Simon & Schuster, and Cataclysms: An Environmental History of Humanity, due November from the University of Chicago Press. We end this month with two miscellaneous titles: Pegasus Books has announced the paperback of A Polar Affair: Antarctica's Forgotten Hero and the Secret Love Lives of Penguins for November, while Cambridge University Press will publish Understanding Coronavirus in July, which will cut through some of the confusion around the current pandemic. As always, if you are looking for a particular title that we do not yet have in our range, or you would like to suggest a title for NHBS to stock, please do get in touch. In the meantime, stay safe and keep well. Leon Vlieger Catalogue Editor Insects & other Invertebrates The Honey Bee Inside Out 192 pages | colour photos, b/w illustrations | Bee Craft Ltd Celia F Davis(Author), Norman L Carreck(Foreword By) Paperback #250479 2020 9780900147166 £29.99 This book is designed to present detailed information about the anatomy and physiology of the honey bee in a clear and concise format. Each of the eight chapters covers an aspect of bee biology and all are copiously illustrated. The author has drawn... Spiders of the North Woods 232 pages | colour photos, colour & b/w illustrations | Kollath-Stensaas A Handy Field Reference to 135 of Our Northern Spiders Publishing Larry Weber(Author) Paperback #250554 2013 9781936571062 £19.99 Which spider spits venom and sticky threads? Why don't Northerners need to fear the Black Widow? These answers and more are found in Spiders of the North Woods. The easy-to-follow format makes field identification of 135 species simple and fun.... The Disappearance of Butterflies 260 pages | Polity Press Josef H Reichholf(Author), Gwen Clayton(Translated by) Hardback #250587 Oct-2020 9781509539796 £24.99 In the last fifty years our butterfly and moth populations have declined by more than eighty per cent and butterflies are now facing the very real prospect of extinction. It is hard to remember the time when fields and meadows were full of these... Handbook on Morphological and Molecular Identification of Southern Indian Mayflies 100 pages | colour illustrations | Zoological Survey of India (Insecta: Ephemeroptera) Paperback #250581 2019 9788181715289 £24.99 C Selvakumar(Author), S Janarthanan(Author), Kailash Chandra(Author), KA Subramanian(Author), KG Sivaramakrishnan(Author) This handbook offers guidance on both molecular and morphological tools to identify mayflies in Southern India. 01-06-2020 https://www.nhbs.com/monthly-catalogue Page 1 Butterflies of the World, Part 47: Nymphalidae XXVII: Charaxinae of Asia and Indo- 60 pages | 43 plates with colour photos | Verlag Goecke & Evers Australia (2-Volume Set) Paperback #250475 2020 9783937783819 £64.99 Bernard Turlin(Author) This updating of the Asian Charaxes follows a similar work published in 2017 which dealt with the genus Polyura. Up to now (2019), 33 species are recognized, a comparable number to the Polyura genus in which 35 species are known at present. Butterflies of the World, Part 48: Nymphalidae XXVIII: Euphaedra II 44 pages | 36 plates wtih colour photos | Verlag Goecke & Evers Gilles Faravel(Author) Paperback #250476 2020 9783937783826 £44.99 A continuation of the work of J. Hecq, whose volume on Euphaedra appeared in this series in 1999 and included 77 species. Currently, there are 245 known species of this genus. New species, as well as variations of species formerly illustrated, are... Ladybird Beetles (Coccinellidae) of Central Europe / Brouci Čeledi Slunéčkovití Střední 383 pages | 79 plates with colour & b/w photos and b/w line drawings | Evropy Academia Oldřich Nedvěd(Author) Paperback #250492 2020 9788020030238 £34.99 This volume discusses the biology and ecology one hundred and one species of ladybugs living in Central Europe (one more than the first edition). Most species are illustrated with photographs of adult beetles from collections or from nature.... The Dragonflies of Corfu 251 pages | 231 colour photos, 44 colour distribution maps | Edition Marie Stille(Author), Bo Stille(Author) Chimaira There are 143 species of dragonflies and damselflies in Europe and 39 of these are presently Hardback #250546 Jun-2020 9783899730401 £39.99 found on Corfu, giving the island one of the highest numbers of species in the Greek archipelago. New species have been added to the fauna quite recently,... Army Ants 336 pages | 133 colour photos, 8 illustrations, 1 map, 3 tables | Harvard Nature's Ultimate Social Hunters University Press Daniel JC Kronauer(Author) Hardback #250100 Oct-2020 9780674241558 £52.95 A swarm raid is one of nature's great spectacles. In tropical rainforests around the world, army ants march in groups by the thousands to overwhelm large solitary invertebrates, along with nests of termites, wasps, and other ants. They kill and... Butterflies of the Levant, Volume 2: Papilionidae, Pieridae & Hesperiidae 210 pages | <1500 colour photos, colour illustrations, colour distribution Dubi Benyamini(Author), Eddie John(Author) maps | 4D MicroRobotics Publications Ltd This is the first in a four-volume series. This unique series includes for the first time all Hardback #250433 Jun-2020 £97.99 available present-day information for every butterfly species in the Levant. In addition to regular lists/catalogues and photographs of set specimens it... Moths of Bihar and Jharkhand 180 pages | 45 plates with colour photos; illustrations, maps | Zoological Navneet Singh(Author)