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Unidentified Leaf Mines
Leafminers of North America By Charley Eiseman
This thoroughly illustrated book compiles information from about 1000 literature sources, plus BugGuide submissions and my own observations, to present keys to the leaf mines found on each plant genus in North America. Species accounts (biology, hosts, and distribution) are given for each insect species, and the first 383 pages are devoted to introducing leafminers (biology, terminology, rearing) and providing overviews of each group of leaf-mining insects as well as their parasitoids and predators (including photos of adults).
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Leaf-mining Insects By Needham, James G., Stuart W. Frost, and Beatrice H. Tothill
The Williams & Wilkins Company, Baltimore, 1928
Full text available here.
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Fresh-Water Biology By H. B. Ward and G. C. Whipple
Wiley, New York, 1918
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Fresh-Water Biology, 2'nd ed. By H. B. Ward and G. C. Whipple, edited by W. T. Edmondson
Wiley, New York, 1959
Read online free at Internet Archive.
Review excerpt:
"In essence, the book is now a series of illustrated keys for identification. each key being preceded by supplementary information essential to its use. These keys, with a few exceptions. are easily followed by the nonspecialist and in most instances may lead the student to a generic identification, although frequently specific determinations can be made."
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Rangeland Insect-Plant Associations on the Pawnee Site By Lavigne, R.J.
Annals of the Entomological Society of America 69(4), 753-763, 1976
This little article is a treasure for naturalists in grassland habitats of western North America, with a listing of observed plant-insect associations from a grassland site in Colorado. The listing is organized by plant species and separated into observations of insect species pollen and nectar feeding, consuming flowers, consuming leaves, etc. A good reference for anyone interested in relationships between insects and plant communities in the west, as a sort of baseline set of hypotheses regarding insects to look for associated with a given common plant species.
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Classification of Insects By C. T. Brues, A. L. Melander, and F. M. Carpenter
Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College, Vol. 108, 1954
Subtitle: Keys to the Living and Extinct Families of Insects, and to the Living Families of Other Terrestrial Arthropods
Full text
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Plant Galls of the Western United States By Ronald A. Russo
Princeton University Press, 2021
An eagerly-awaited (and now much-celebrated ;-) update of the author's previous field guide (1). Currently this is probably the best book resource for overall info on galls of the western U.S., with coverage of diverse gall taxa on a wide range hosts groups, as well as abundant insights into their biology and ecology.
The publisher's web page is here. A good amount of info, and a taste for the quality of content & presentation, can be gleaned from the "Look Inside" preview accessible through the Amazon web page for the book.
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Tree and Shrub Insects of the Prairie Provices By W.G.H Ives and H. R. Wong
Canadian Forestry Service, Northern Forest Centre, Info. Rep. NOR-X-292, 1988
Abstract
"More than 600 species of insects and mites that feed on trees and shrubs in the prairie provinces are discussed ..."
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