Animal Life in Palestine: An Introduction to the Problems of Animal Ecology and Zoogeography

abundant activity adults animals annual appear April autumn Barrois bees beetles birds breeding brown Citrus coast coast-plain colour common species crepuscular Dead Sea Dead Sea Depression develop diapause Diptera distribution diurnal eggs Egypt element F. S. Bodenheimer fauna feed female fish forms fresh-water Galilee genus hatch herbs hills holes host Huleh humid Hymenoptera important insects Irano-Turanian Jericho Jerusalem Jordan Valley Lake Huleh Lake Tiberias large numbers larvae LEPIDOPTERA live lizards locust mainly malaria male mammals Mediterranean migrations molluscs months moths mountains Negeb nest nocturnal observed occasionally occur Orthoptera oviposition palaestinensis Palestine parasites period pests plants PLATE polyphagous prey probably protozoa regions restricted Saharo-Sindian sandy season shore snails snake soil spiders spring steppes summer summer-breeders syriacus Syrian desert Tamarix temperature Transjordania trees Tristram tropical VII VIII Wadi winter winter-visitors XI XII yellow Zeitschr zoogeographical Zool