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Life on a Little-Known Planet By Howard Ensign Evans
Lyons & Burford, 1993
Reprint of the classic. Has essays and life history information.
Contributed by Cotinis on 21 March, 2004 - 10:18am |
 A Field Guide to Insects By Richard E. White, Donald J. Borror, Roger Tory Peterson
Houghton Mifflin Co, 1998
Representative coverage of most orders. Well illustrated: 1,300 drawings and 142 color illustrations on sixteen plates. Has some life history information and some keys.
Contributed by Cotinis on 21 March, 2004 - 10:04am |
Guide to Observing Insect Lives By Donald W. Stokes
Little, Brown, and Company, 1983
Good introduction to life histories, organized by season. Has extensive reference list, unfortunately, not organized by subject and not keyed to life history accounts. Still worth reading.
Contributed by Cotinis on 21 March, 2004 - 9:35am |
Forest Insects of the Southeast By James A. Beal
Duke University School of Forestry (Bulletin no. 14), 1952
(Subtitle: With Special Reference to Species Occurring in the Piedmont Plateau of North Carolina)
Out-of-print but available in libraries and used. Has extensive life history information for those insects affecting trees, especially lepidoptera, coleoptera. Some photographic illustrations including gallery tunnels of wood borers and the like.
Contributed by Cotinis on 21 March, 2004 - 8:12am |
The Common Insects of North America By Lester A. Swan, Charles S. Papp
Harper & Row, 1972
Good reference with many excellent illustrations (1400 scratchboard drawings, 8 color plates of artwork). Out-of-print, but sometimes can be found used. Probably superseded by Papp's Comprehensive Guide to North American Insects.
Contributed by Cotinis on 16 March, 2004 - 9:58pm |
Alien Empire: An Exploration of the Life of Insects By Christopher O'Toole
Harper Collins Publishers, 1996
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 Microcosmos: The Invisible World of Insects By Claude Nuridsany, Marie Perennou
Stewart, Tabori & Chang, 1997
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 The Thermal Warriors: Strategies of Insect Survival By Bernd Heinrich
Harvard Univ Press, 1999
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