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A field guide to the insects of America north of Mexico / by Donald J. Borror and Richard E. White ; color and shaded drawings by Richard E. White ; line drawings by the authors.
Veterinary: Atwood Library (Campus) QL473 .B65
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LIBRA QL464 .B65 1970
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Borror, Donald J. (Donald Joyce), 1907-1988, author, illustrator.
- White, Richard E., author, illustrator.
- Series:
- Peterson field guide series ; 19.
- The Peterson field guide series ; 19
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Insects--United States--Identification.
- Insects.
- Insects--Canada--Identification.
- Insects--identification.
- Insecta--classification.
- Canada.
- United States.
- Insects--Identification.
- Medical Subjects:
- Insecta--classification.
- Genre:
- Reference works.
- Field guides.
- Guidebooks.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 404 pages, 16 leaves of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 19 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Boston : Houghton Mifflin Company, ©1970.
- Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 1970.
- Summary:
- Comprehensive, thoroughly illustrated guide to the collection, preservation and study of over five hundred families of North American insects.
- Contents:
- Editor's note
- Preface
- Introductory chapters. How to use this book
- Collecting and preserving insects
- Work with living insects
- The structure of insects
- The growth and development of insects
- Classifying and naming insects
- Systematic chapters. Arthropods
- Insects : class insecta. Proturans: order protura ; Bristletails: order thysanura ; Springtails: order collembola ; Mayflies: order ephemeroptera ; Dragonflies and damselflies: order odonata ; Grasshoppers, kaytdids, crickets, mantids, walkingsticks, and cockroaches: order orthoptera ; Termites: order isoptera ; Stoneflies: order plecoptera ; Earwigs: order dermaptera ; Webspinners: order embioptera ; Zorapterans: order zoraptera ; Booklice and barklice: order psocoptera ; Chewing lice: order mallophaga ; Sucking lice: order anoplura ; Thrips: order thysanoptera ; Bugs: order hemiptera ; Cicadas, hoppers, whiteflies, aphids, and scale insects: order homoptera ; Fishflies, snakeflies, lacewings, and antlions: order neuroptera ; Beetles: order coleoptera ; Twisted-winged parasites: order strepsiptera ; Scorpionflies and their allies: order mecoptera ; Caddisflies: order trichoptera ; Butterflies and moths: order lepidoptera ; Flies: order diptera ; Fleas: order siphonaptera ; Sawflies, ichneumons, chalcids, ants, wasps, and bees: order hymenoptera
- Glossary
- References
- Index.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 373-376) and index.
- Current Copyright Fee: GBP20.00 0.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Borror, Donald Joyce, 1907-1988. Field guide to the insects of America north of Mexico.
- ISBN:
- 0395074363
- 9780395074367
- 0395185238
- 9780395185230
- 0395911710
- 9780395911716
- 0395911702
- 9780395911709
- OCLC:
- 66022
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