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BugGuide Gathering
Smoky Mountains
University of Tennessee Biological Field Station
August 8-10, 2008
 
Photos from the gathering
 
Photos from the 2007 gathering in Minnesota

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Family Pamphiliidae - Webspinning and Leafrolling Sawflies

 
 
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Catalog of Hymenoptera in America North of Mexico
By Karl V. Krombein, Paul D. Hurd, Jr., David R. Smith, and B. D. Burks
Smithsonian Institution Press, 1979

Wasp Farm
By Howard Ensign Evans
Comstock Publishing, 1963
Essays and life history observations.

Aquatic Insects of North America
By R. W. Merritt, K. W. Cummins, M.B. Berg
Kendall/Hunt, 2008
Over 1,000 pages citing 6,000 references. Contains keys and illustrations. Keys to larvae typically go to genus.

Fourth edition; previous editions dated 1978, 1984, 1996.

Scanned version of third edition available on Google books (missing some pages).

Parasitic Insects
By R. R. Askew
Elsevier, 1971

Learn About ... Texas Insects.
By Chris Durden.
University of Texas Press, 1999
Chris Durden is Curator Emeritus of Entomology and Geology, Texas Memorial Museum.

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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

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A wealth of natural history information, although there are a lot of outdated names that require some detective work.

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.

 
 
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