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National Moth Week was July 19-27, and the Summer 2025 gathering in Louisiana, July 19-27

Photos of insects and people from the 2024 BugGuide gathering in Idaho July 24-27

Moth submissions from National Moth Week 2024

Photos of insects and people from the 2022 BugGuide gathering in New Mexico, July 20-24

Photos of insects and people from the Spring 2021 gathering in Louisiana, April 28-May 2

Photos of insects and people from the 2019 gathering in Louisiana, July 25-27

Species Chrysoperla rufilabris - Red-lipped Green Lacewing

Methods for Catching Beetles

By Carlos Aguilar Julio
edinaturalia@gmail.com, 2011

See details online at: http://www.naturalia-editions.com/
ISBN 978-9974-98-133

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Contributed by Bob Patterson on 2 June, 2011 - 9:12am

Biological control of invasive plants in the eastern United States

By Van Driesche R., et al.
USDA Forest Service Publication FHTET-2002-04. Morgantown, WV. 413 pp., 2002

Online version

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Contributed by v belov on 14 May, 2011 - 7:07pm

Handbook of vegetable pests

By Capinera J.L.
Academic Press, San Diego. 729 pp., 2001

Full text

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Contributed by v belov on 6 May, 2011 - 12:45pm

A history of entomology

By Essig E.O.
New York: Macmillan. 1029 pp., 1931

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About the author: Michelbacher et al. (1965)

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Contributed by v belov on 11 April, 2011 - 12:04pm

Encyclopedia of Entomology, 2nd ed

By Capinera J.L., ed.
Springer, lxiii+4346 pp. (4 vols.), 2008

content available in major part on googlebooks

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Contributed by v belov on 10 April, 2011 - 1:56pm

Composition of scientific words

By Brown R.W.
Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, DC. 882 pp., 1956

Full title: Composition of scientific words: A manual of methods and a lexicon of materials for the practice of logotechnics

Recommended here. Most helpful source. Multiple reprint editions available.

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Contributed by v belov on 7 April, 2011 - 3:35pm

Insects and other arthropods that feed on aquatic and wetland plants

By Center T.D., Dray F.A., Jubinsky G.P., Grodowitz M.J.
USDA ARS, Technical Bulletin 1870. 200 pp., 2002

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Photos and descriptions of the life stages and feeding damage of about 50 most common native plant-feeding insects and naturalized biological control insects found in aquatic and wetland ecosystems in the US.

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Contributed by v belov on 10 February, 2011 - 10:20pm

Insect and Mite Pests in Food, an Illustrated Key

By J. Richard Gorham, editor
United States Department of Agriculture Handbook 655, 1991

Full text of Volume 1 available here.

Full text of Volume 2 available here.

This publication "provides the user a rapid and accurate means of identifying more than 600 species of pests encountered throughout the food industry."

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Contributed by Brad Barnd on 8 February, 2011 - 10:25pm

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