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

Genus Armadillidium


Bugs Rule!
By Whitney Cranshaw & Richard Redak
Princeton University Press, 2013
Bugs Rule! provides a lively introduction to the biology and natural history of insects and their noninsect cousins, such as spiders, scorpions, and centipedes. This richly illustrated textbook features more than 830 color photos, a concise overview of the basics of entomology, and numerous sidebars that highlight and explain key points. Detailed chapters cover each of the major insect groups, describing their physiology, behaviors, feeding habits, reproduction, human interactions, and more.

Ideal for nonscience majors and anyone seeking to learn more about insects and their arthropod relatives, Bugs Rule! offers a one-of-a-kind gateway into the world of these amazing creatures.

A glossary of foreign-language terms in entomology
By R.O. Ericson
United States Department of Agriculture, Agriculture Handbook 218, 1961
Useful tool to aid in translating publications in entomology.

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The invertebrate fauna of the caves of the Uinta Mountains, northeastern Utah
By S. B. Peck
Great Basin Naturalist, 41(2): 207-212., 1981

Biological Control of Invasive Plants in the United States
By Eric M. Coombs, Janet K. Clark, Gary L. Piper, Alfred F. Cofrancesco, Jr.
Oregon State University Press, 1-467, 2004

Hartford H. Keifer - pioneer California microlepidopterist
By Jerry A Powell
Journal of the Lepidopterists' Society 44(4): 273-284, 1990

Biographical memoir of Alpheus Spring Packard Jr., LL.D. (1839 – 1905)
By T. D. A. Cockerell
The National Academy of Sciences 9: 179-236, 1920
American entomologist and palaeontologist.

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Annotated checklist of New World insects associated with Prosopis (Mesquite)
By C. R. Ward, C. W. O'Brien, l. B. O'Brien, D. E. Foster, E. W. Huddleston
Agricultural Research Service, U.S.D.A. 1557: 1-115, 1977

Pests of ornamental trees, shrubs and flowers: a colour handbook. 2nd ed.
By Alford D.V.
Academic Press. 480 pp., 2012
Abstract
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