Identification, Images, & Information
For Insects, Spiders & Their Kin
For the United States & Canada

Suborder Palpatores


Harvestmen: The Biology of Opiliones
By Ricardo Pinto-Da-Rocha, Glauco Machado, and Gonzalo Giribet (eds.)
Harvard University Press, 2007
An excerpt, as well as the index, can be downloaded from the Harvard University Press website.

Spiders of the Eastern US, A Photographic Guide
By W. Mike Howell and Ronald L. Jenkins
pearson education, 2004
Information about the book you could find at:

http://www.samford.edu/schools/artsci/biology/spiderbk.htm

Spiders and Their Kin: A Golden Guide from St. Martin's Press
By Herbert W. Levi, Lorna R. Levi, Nicholas Strekalovsky
St. Martin's Press, 2001

A Field Guide to Spiders and Scorpions of Texas
By John A. Jackman
Gulf Publishing, 2002

A Field Guide to the Animals of Vernal Pools
By Leo P. Kenney and Matthew R. Burne
Massachusetts Division of Fisheries & Wildlife Natural Heritage & Endangered Species Program and Vernal Pool Association, 2000

American insects
By Vernon L. Kellogg
H. Holt and Company, 1905
A classic entomology text with many illustrations (by Mary Wellman), available from the Biodiversity Heritage Library:
http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/8439

Hemp Diseases and Pests
By McPartland, J. M., R. C. Clarke, D. P. Watson
CABI Publishing, 2000

An Introduction to Entomology
By John Henry Comstock
The Comstock publishing Co., 1933
Several editions, dating back into the 1890's. Apparently (!) in the public domain. Available at the Biodiversity Heritage Library.