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Entomology
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General Interest
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Simon & Schuster Children's Guide to Insects and Spiders, by Jinny Johnson
A detailed introduction to spiders and insects contains information about
every major group of arachnids and insects, hundreds of thought-provoking
facts, and full-color pictures and photographs. [synopsis, amazon.com]
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Broadsides from the Other Orders : A Book of Bugs, by Sue Hubbell, Dimitry Schidlovsky
God, the English biologist J.B.S. Haldane once observed, has an inordinate
fondness for beetles--and, for that matter, for all the other little bugs and
insects that abound on the earth. Sue Hubbell, a beekeeper-turned-essayist,
shares that fondness, and after reading her notes on camel crickets, gypsy
moths, and water striders, among other creatures, you will as well. Hubbell's
appreciation extends even to bugs that we find noxious ("Silverfish," she
writes, "are gregarious, sociable animals, liking their own company so much
that they often eat one another"), although she admits to harboring a few
favorites among the innumerable insect orders, notably bees, of course, and
daddy longlegs spiders, whose "otherness" she rightly prizes. [review, Gregory
McNamee for amazon.com]
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Bagging Big Bugs : How to Identify, Collect and Display the
Largest and Most Colorful Insects of the Rocky Mountain Region, by Whitney Cranshaw, Boris Kondratieff
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