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How to Know the Insects (Pictured Key Nature Series)

by: Roger G Bland, Mabel J Cuthbert, Martha W Cutkomp, Wm. G Jaques, Jean Lemieux, Francesca J Stoner, John Bamrick, Edward T Cawley

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Binding: Spiral-bound
Dewey Decimal Number: 595.7
EAN: 9780697047526
Edition: 3
ISBN: 0697047520
Label: McGraw-Hill Science/Engineering/Math
Manufacturer: McGraw-Hill Science/Engineering/Math
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 432
Publication Date: May 01, 1978
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Science/Engineering/Math
Studio: McGraw-Hill Science/Engineering/Math

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- Excellent!
I've gotten interested in insects just because of my own curiosity but wanted to learn a bit about their Families and species so I picked up this book (recommended by a teacher of a naturalist class on insects). It is an incredibly complete book with excellent drawings, discussions of common species, easyu to understand layout of orders and families without getting tooooo technical. Just what I needed to get my feet wet in being able to id and learn about specific insects I come across in the garden ... Read More

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I have owned a copy of this book for many years and consider it to be the best classification guide available for undergraduates and serious amatuer collectors. An index\glossary provides hundreds of terms related to external morphology that can be memorized and the identification procedure is both simple and efficient. There are plenty of detailed illustrations.
The only downside is that this book has not been revised in many years. It most likely contains errors, because systematics is an ... Read More

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- A Great Book for Insect Collectors!
I bought this book for my summer Etomology class. It is a very helpful book when you are trying to identify insects, however some of the insect characteristics are hard to see in the diagrams compaired to the real insect. A disecting microscope is strongly recommended when useing this book, since most of the characteristics deal with segments on the legs or antennae, as well as wing veins. These structures hare very hard to see with the naked eye. If a mistake is made in classification it is easy ... Read More

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