The first book to illustrate all of the resident British species in these prominent groups. It includes a colour key with several pages of side by side photographs, quickly narrowing your search to the correct species. Annotated colour photographs describing their anatomy are provided. The text describes the life-history of each species, as well as life-history tables for quick reference. Identification features which allow easy separation from similar species are also given. It contains a page of high quality colour photographs for each bug showing the detail of even the smallest species.