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

Family Heloridae


Insect Life and Insect Natural History
By S. W. Frost
Dover Publications, Inc., 1959

INSECTS OF THE SOUTHWEST: Arizona, New Mexico, So. California
By Douglas D. Copeland
Self published by author, 2009
This is a neat photo book. There is no written information, but rather 715 color photographs of dragonflies, beetles, and moths mostly from Southern Arizona. It is an excellent book to have if you are interested in Southwestern insects. Somewhat like having a miniature museum at your fingertips sans collection info.
Available from bioquip (bioquip.com) for $25

A Field Guide to the Plants and Animals of the Middle Rio Grande Bosque
By Jean-Luc E. Cartron, David C. Lightfoot, Jane E. Mygatt, Sandra L. Brantley, and Timothy K. Lowrey
University of New Mexico Press, 2008
An excellent field guide to plants, invertebrates, herps, and mammals of the Bosque region of New Mexico. Available from UNM press (unmpress.unm.edu)

Bug Butts

Encyclopedia of Insects
By Vincent Resh & Ring Cardé
Academic Press, 2003
1266 pages

Insects, their ways and means of living
By Robert E. Snodgrass
New York Smithsonian Institution series, 1930
An out-of-copyright work with useful diagrams and such. Available at the Internet Archive:
http://www.archive.org/details/39088001578236

Freshwater macroinvertebrates of Northeastern North America
By Peckarsky, B. L., P. Fraissinet, M. A. Penton, and D. J. Conklin, Jr.
Cornell University Press, Ithaca, NY., 1990
easy-to-use illustrated keys to genera; the link can be added to many order and fam. pages

Insects of Western North America
By Edward Oliver Essig. 1926.
The MacMillan Company, 1926
Subtitle: "A manual and textbook for students in colleges and universities and a handbook for county, state and federal entomologists and agriculturalists as well as for foresters, farmers, gardeners, travelers, and lovers of nature."

A thorough compendium of the biology, ecology, economy and distribution of insects in western North America, west of the continental divide.

Essig, E.O. 1926. Insects of Western North America. The Macmillan Company, New York. 766 b/w figs or photos, xi + 1035 pp.