By Karl and Dorothy Legler and Dave Westover Karl Legler, 1998
A compact paperback book filled with color photos and incredibly interesting facts about dragonflies and damselflies. Includes a range map, IDs sex, shows months when present, their conservation status, and various drawings that help with making identifications. Amazon.com is sold out but the front of the book as this info for "obtaining additional copies." Karl Legler, 429 Franklin St., Sauk City, WI 53583 Phone: 608-643-4926
Contributed by v belov on 19 October, 2011 - 8:01am
The Grasshoppers of California (Orthoptera: Acridoidea); Bulletin of the California Insect Survey, volume 10
By H.F. Strohecker, Woodrow W. Middlekauff, David C. Rentz University of California Press, 1968
Identification keys, maps, and descriptions of all of the Acridioid Grasshoppers known from California at the time. Black and White drawings illustrate diagnostic traits. Only a little out of date, and the definitive treatment for the state of California.
Can be read at the Essig Museum of Entomology at Berkeley web site here.