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

Species Phalangium opilio


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

Guinness World Records 2010: The Book of the Decade
By Guinness World Records
Guinness World Records Ltd, 2009
There are some very neat arthropod records and facts on pages 48-49. I am submitting this book so that I can cite it as a reference for a record I would like to add to the Bothriocyrtum californicum info page. There are other records included as well, which I may add to their subsequent info pages (maybe).

Tracks & Sign of Insects and Other Invertebrates
By Charley Eiseman & Noah Charney
Stackpole Books, 2010
A guide to the things bugs leave behind, rather than to the bugs themselves. 900+ photos and 18 chapters:

- 1 - Eggs and Egg Cases - 2 - Pupae and Exuviae - 3 - Parasitism, Predation, and Other Causes of Death
- 4 - Sign on Vertebrates [Includes a section on bites, stings, etc. on humans, mostly written by John Carlson]
- 5 - Droppings, Secretions, and Protective Coverings without Foreign Materials
- 6 - Webs and Other Silken Constructions - 7 - Cocoons - 8 - Coverings, Cases, Retreats, and Nests Made from Foreign Materials

Rare and Endangered Biota of Florida, Volume IV. Invertebrates
By Mark Deyrup and Richard Franz (Eds.). 1994.
University Press of Florida, Gainesville., 1994
Deyrup, M. & R. Franz. (editors). 1994. Rare and endangered biota of Florida. Volume IV. Invertebrates. University Press of Florida, Gainesville. xxx + 798 pp.

Book Review by Ross H. Arnett Jr.

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