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A Peterson Field Guide to Insects: America North of Mexico
(Peterson Field Guides #19)
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Find what you're looking for with Peterson Field Guides—their field-tested visual identification system is designed to help you differentiate thousands of unique species accurately every time. Detailed descriptions of insect orders, families, and many individual species are illustrated with 1,300 drawings and 142 superb color paintings. Illustrations - which use the uniqu
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Paperback, 416 pages
Published
April 15th 1998
by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
(first published 1970)
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this is a cute little book with color photos of insects, and is a beginners guide to identifying basic orders and species of insects. this is a great book for learning in the field!
Detailed images for identification and brief descriptions of each bug.
Wow this was my third insect field guide, and I must say I didn't expect to find it useful at all because it uses illustrations rather than photographs and its age, but man I was wrong.
I use this book heavily juxtaposed to National Wildlife Federation Field Guide to Insects and Spiders of NA.
I also own Kaufman Field Guide to Insects of NA and I will address all three books in this review which can be found on all of these books' pages:
Kaufman is good for its many pictures mostly consisten ...more
I use this book heavily juxtaposed to National Wildlife Federation Field Guide to Insects and Spiders of NA.
I also own Kaufman Field Guide to Insects of NA and I will address all three books in this review which can be found on all of these books' pages:
Kaufman is good for its many pictures mostly consisten ...more
A decent field guide: useful enough for helping with basic identification while out collecting, with good chapters on how to collect and preserve specimens. Because it covers a large geographical range, it will not be as helpful in getting down to the family or genus level in identification, but it is a good starting point.
Not a bad book for beginners...everything is here to help you identify that strange insect you saw. But this edition dates pretty far back and there are so many more up-to-date field guides with beautiful photographs as opposed to these black and white drawings.
The diagnostic field marks included in this Peterson Field Guide are very helpful in identifying some of the more common orders & families of North American insects. The color plates are especially stunning; I just wish the guide could have included more species.
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I found the book quite interesting for those who wish to learn a bit about Insects. Had many nice facts in it. And kept me on the subject for a long time. Not to mention how nice the imagery was that was in the book. Personally one of my top books on entomology.
This book helped my accurately identify like, 3 kinds of insects so far. The colored pictures are pretty.
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I don't know how many of this book gets sold, but the effort and content is well worth the price. You never know which walking stick you might find on your back porch.
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A must have for the beginner-intermediate field entomologist! This book has gotten me through many years of identification.
Good descriptions.
Lacks photos but excellent illustrations more than make up for it.
I read the library copy but worth buying.
Lacks photos but excellent illustrations more than make up for it.
I read the library copy but worth buying.
Probably better for the bug fanatic. Me? Not so much.
This guide has limited coverage of insect species, but it has very useful keys for identifying insects into the correct orders and families.
Good for beginners, but kind of out of date at this point for the experienced entomologist.
Excellent descriptions and information.
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