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Book, Laura Levens, No Legs or Many: Spineless and Wild, 2007

  • The front cover of a book, featuring a title in lowercase and an argiope keyserlingi spider.

    No Legs or Many Front Cover

  • The rear cover of a book, featuring several images of insects, spiders, and other bugs.

    No Legs or Many Rear Cover

  • The front cover of a book, featuring a title in lowercase and an argiope keyserlingi spider.
  • The rear cover of a book, featuring several images of insects, spiders, and other bugs.

Physical description

This item is a short 45-page paperback book mostly containing colour images of a wide variety of arthropods local to and observed in Upper Beaconsfield, in order of their number of legs. On page 40, a printed and glued insert contains errata. The final numbered page is printed on the inside rear cover. There is a colour photograph of an Argiope keyserlingi spider on the cover, accompanied by miscellaneous detail insets of other creatures. The front inset cover has a black and white photograph of a Tenodera australasiae praying mantis.

Publication type

non-fiction

Inscriptions & markings

Front Cover:
Title: "no legs or many / spineless and wild"
Middle: "Laura Levens"
Lower: "UBCC INC. & / CARDINIA"

Errata addition: "'No legs or many' / Errata or changes to text advised after publication. / Page 6: Anthecidae watermark beetle is Lemodes coccinea / Page 22: re-name Laxta granicola as Panesthia australis / Page 34: change Breda jovialus to Breda jovialis / Page 40: change Portugese (sic) millipede juvenile to Pogonosterum sp, an Australian native millipede."

Summary

This book was published in 2007 by the Upper Beaconsfield Conservation Group, with support from Cardinia Shire. It contains colour photographs of dozens of arthropods identified "in grassy woodland on a steep hillside near Upper Beaconsfield." It sorts arthropods from 'no legs' - e.g. flatworms and slugs - to millipedes with 'how many legs'. Each image is accompanied by scientific, observed, and conmtextual information, such as the creature's scientific name and family, and its native or introduced status.

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