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Family Tortricidae - Tortricid Moths
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.
Contributed by Mike Quinn on 14 January, 2009 - 1:53pm |
Aquatic Insects of North America By R. W. Merritt, K. W. Cummins, M.B. Berg
Kendall/Hunt, 2008
Over 1,000 pages citing 6,000 references. Contains keys and illustrations. Keys to larvae typically go to genus.
Fourth edition; previous editions dated 1978, 1984, 1996.
Scanned version of third edition available on Google books (missing some pages).
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Parasitic Insects By R. R. Askew
Elsevier, 1971
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Learn About ... Texas Insects. By Chris Durden. 1999. Texas Parks & Wildlife Press, Austin. 60 pp.
University of Texas Press, 1999
Full PDF
Chris Durden is Curator Emeritus of Entomology and Geology, Texas Memorial Museum, Austin.
Durden, C. 1999. Learn About ... Texas Insects. Texas Parks & Wildlife Press, Austin. 60 pp.
Contributed by Mike Quinn on 17 August, 2008 - 2:26pm |
Explanation of terms used in entomology By John Bernardh Smith
Brooklyn Entomological Society, 1906
Viewable and downloadable in various formats from the Biodiversity Heritage Library
Contributed by Cotinis on 19 June, 2008 - 7:43pm |
Guide to the Study of Insects (and a Treatise on Those Injurious and Beneficial to Crops) By A. S. Packard, Jr., M.D.
Henry Holt and Company, New York, 1878
A wealth of natural history information, although there are a lot of outdated names that require some detective work.
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The Songs of Insects By Lang Elliott, Wil Hershberger
Houghton Mifflin, 2007
A book/CD combination with excellent photos, brief species accounts, and recorded songs of 75 North American species--mostly orthoptera, but a few cicadas as well.
Contributed by Cotinis on 7 January, 2008 - 8:36pm |
Plant-Pollinator Interactions By Nickolas M. Waser and Jeff Ollerton (eds)
The University of Chicago Press, 2006
The editors and contributors of this volume cover important contemporary work in pollination biology, with historic glimpses back to early seminal work by Kölreuter, Sprengel, and others.
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