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Unidentified specimens grouped by color
The Wasps By Howard Ensign Evans, Mary Jane West Eberhard
University of Michigan Press, 1970
A readable reference on wasp biology. Out of print, sometimes can be found used.
Contributed by Cotinis on 4 June, 2005 - 4:25am |
 Parasitic Wasps By Donald L. J. Quicke
Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1997
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 Solitary Wasps: Behavior and Natural History (Cornell Series in Arthropod Biology) By Kevin M. O'Neill
Comstock Publishing, 2000
Contains information concerning the behavior of a variety of solitary wasps (e.g. sphecid, pompilid, and vespid wasps). This is not, however, an identification guide and this book does not treat what are considered parasitic wasps (e.g. chalcid and ichneumon wasps). Includes a number of summarizing tables as well as case studies of particular species.
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Wasp Farm By Howard Ensign Evans
Comstock Publishing, 1963
Essays and life history observations.
Contributed by Cotinis on 21 March, 2004 - 10:14am |
Learn About ... Texas Insects. By Chris Durden.
University of Texas Press, 1999
Chris Durden is Curator Emeritus of Entomology and Geology, Texas Memorial Museum.
Full text
Contributed by Mike Quinn on 17 August, 2008 - 2:26pm |
Explanation of terms used in entomology By John Bernardh Smith
Brooklyn Entomological Society, 1906
Viewable and downloadable in various formats from the Biodiversity Heritage Library
Contributed by Cotinis on 19 June, 2008 - 7:43pm |
Guide to the Study of Insects (and a Treatise on Those Injurious and Beneficial to Crops) By A. S. Packard, Jr., M.D.
Henry Holt and Company, New York, 1878
A wealth of natural history information, although there are a lot of outdated names that require some detective work.
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The Songs of Insects By Lang Elliott, Wil Hershberger
Houghton Mifflin, 2007
A book/CD combination with excellent photos, brief species accounts, and recorded songs of 75 North American species--mostly orthoptera, but a few cicadas as well.
Contributed by Cotinis on 7 January, 2008 - 8:36pm |
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