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

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Photographic Atlas of Entomology and Guide To Insect Identification
By James L. Castner
Feline Press, 2000

Peterson First Guide to Insects of North America
By Richard E. White, Christopher Leahy, Roger Tory Peterson
Houghton Mifflin Co, 1998
An excellent value, this book provides a wealth of information. You will be able to identify most things you find to a family. An entomologist recommended this book to me and said that he uses it almost everyday.

Simon & Schuster's Guide to Insects
By Dr. Ross H. Arnett, Dr. Richard L. Jacques
Fireside, 1981

Insects: A Golden Guide from St. Martin's Press
By Herbert S. Zim, Clarence Cottam
St. Martin's Press, 2001

The Cave Fauna of California
By W.R. Elliott, J.R. Reddell, D.C. Rudolph, G.O. Graening, T.S. Briggs, D. Ubick, R.L. Aalbu, J. Krejca, S.J. Taylor
Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences (Series 4) Volume 64, Supplement 1, 2017
Abstract:
Hidden biodiversity is revealed in this study of California's subterranean fauna, which contains distinctive elements that differentiate it from other North American regions. Since 1975, the rate of discovery of new species has accelerated with funded projects in most of the important cave areas of the state, including our own studies. Here we compile all available biological records for subterranean sites in California dating back to 1840.
California's karst is primarily comprised of small outcrops of marble or limestone with thousands of caves. Additionally, lava and ash flows, tens of thousands of mines, hundreds of sea caves on the mainland coast and islands, and extensive groundwater systems provide habitat for subterranean life.

Field Guide to California Insects (2nd Ed.)
By Kip Will, Joyce Gross, Daniel Rubinoff, Jerry A. Powell
University of California Press, 2020
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This is a thoroughly revised & updated version of the classic "California Insects" by Jerry A. Powell & Charles L. Hogue, originally published by UC Press in 1979.

Beyond updated names, additional taxa, and new information...a highlight of the book is the more than 700 illustrative photos...the vast majority exquisitely taken by BugGuide editor Joyce Gross (who besides curating the photos and overseeing their layout, contributed in many other ways large & small).

Observations on Torvothrips kosztarabi (Thysanoptera: Phlaeothripidae) Inhabiting Coccoid Galls
By Michael Kosztarab
The Florida Entomologist, Vol. 65, No. 1 (Mar., 1982), pp. 159-164, 1982

Biological control of insect pests and weeds.
By DeBach, P. (Ed.)
Chapman and Hall, London. xxiv + 844 pp., 1964
DeBach, P. (Ed.) 1964. Biological control of insect pests and weeds. Chapman and Hall, London. xxiv + 844 pp.