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Kaufman Field Guide to Insects of North America (Kaufman Field Guides)
Comprehensive yet compact, authoritative yet easy to understand, this is the perfect guide for anyone who wants to know more about the fascinating and diverse insects of North America.
Many insects are difficult even for the experts to identify, but here readers will find a wealth of information on the amazing observable behaviors of insects and their fascinating life histo...more
Many insects are difficult even for the experts to identify, but here readers will find a wealth of information on the amazing observable behaviors of insects and their fascinating life histo...more
Unknown Binding, 392 pages
Published
February 28th 2007
by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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Jul 31, 2012
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I bought this at my local birding store on Fern Street, One Good Tern, here in Alexandria VA. I figured if they only carried one insect guide it would be the one they thought best, and I was right.
I had read all the field-guide-to-insect book reviews and had come away totally confused. Everyone admits right from the start that you can't possible cover all North American insects in a single portable volume so I was expecting great selectivity in whatever I chose.
This one is very easy to use and...more
I had read all the field-guide-to-insect book reviews and had come away totally confused. Everyone admits right from the start that you can't possible cover all North American insects in a single portable volume so I was expecting great selectivity in whatever I chose.
This one is very easy to use and...more
The best insect field guide available at my local Barnes & Noble, and probably one of the better ones out there - covers enough species so that you can narrow an unknown insect down to a family, at least, and then go from there by searching online. As it is, though, it does have a lot of species represented in it, and so far I've only ID'ed maybe 3? species that weren't represented in the guide. Also, it's plenty portable (might even fit in a large pocket), unlike some of the other "field gu...more
Most field guides to the insects are not particularly useful simply because the sheer number of species exceeds what any guide can cover. This book, though, is the exception. It is a highly useful field guide and it continually amazes me how often the insect you find in the field is also in the book. Some of my photographs are in the book, but I would feel the same about the book without this fact.
Very good guide to the most common North American insects. However, there are so many insects that it is impossible for the guide to cover all of them, so not every insect can be identified with this book.
My constant companion to help identify insects I find in the garden. I only wish that it showed even more insects than it already does - which are quite a few!
The best I've come across yet for IDing insects. With this and the National Wildlife Federation's, you can't go wrong.
My kid and I are obsessed with this book. Great learning tool for both of us as we prowl the backyard.
way cool.
my favorite insect guide. It seems to have nearly everything I find, or a close enough relative to make ID much easier, and it emphasizes that there are many more species out there. Just enough information on each bug. love it.
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