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

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Genus Bombus - Bumble Bees

 
 
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Pollination Ecology of the Front Range of the Colorado Rocky Mountains
By Macior, Lazarus Walter
Melanderia, Vol. 15, Washington State Entomological Society, Pullman WA 99164-6382, 1974
59 pp., Bombus (19 species) and Psithyrus insularis only. No images.

On the Ecology and Systematics of Coloradan Bumblebees
By Byron, Peggy Ann
Thesis, University of Colorado, Boulder CO, 1980
193 pp. Contains descriptions of 20 species and subspecies of Bombus and 3 species of Psithyrus in Colorado, also a key to males and females to Colorado Bombus and Psithyrus. No images.

The Bees of the World, 2nd edition
By Charles D. Michener
The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007

The Bees of the World
By Charles Duncan Michener
Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000

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

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A wealth of natural history information, although there are a lot of outdated names that require some detective work.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