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Sphecid wasps of the world: a generic revision
By Richard Mitchell Bohart, Arnold S. Menke
University of California Press, 1976
I only had time for a cursory look...but this appears to be an excellent reference work! 675 pages.

Much of this book can be viewed via Google Books. The Introduction begins at this link.

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
Available online at Internet Archive:
Volume 1
Volume 2
Volume 3 (index)

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

Insects of Algonquin Provincial Park
By Steve Marshall
Friends of Algonquin Park, 1997
This book is very cheap and useful for anybody living near to Algonquin Provincial Park. Although it is a short book its 8X11 size makes it difficult to take out into the field.

Steve Marshall nine year later hugely expanded the book to create his "Insects: Their Natural History And Diversity: With a Photographic Guide to Insects of Eastern North America"
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Exotic Insects Reported New to Northeastern United States and Estern Canada since 1970
By Hoebeke, E.R. and A. G. Wheeler, Jr.
Journal of the New York Entomological Society, 91(3): 193-222, 1983

Wild plants and their associated insects in the Palearctic Region, primarily Europe and the Middle East
By Campobasso, G., E. Colonnelli, L. Knutson, G. Terragitti, and M. Cristofaro, eds.
U.S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, ARS–147, 1999

Winter World: The Ingenuity of Animal Survival
By Bernd Heinrich
Harper Perennial, 2009
Reprint edition of original 2002 hardcover edition which can be purchased via Amazon.com via private sellers here.

This is a fascinating book which deals with how animals prepare, adapt, and survive freezing temperatures. Although bird, mammal and amphibian species are also covered, there is plenty of information on arthropod winter survival strategies.

Keys to the insects of the Far East of the USSR, Vol. 2. Homoptera and Heteroptera
By Lehr, P. A., ed.
Leningrad, Nauka Publishing House, 1988

 
 
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