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Simon & Schuster's Guide to Insects (Fireside Books)
by Ross H Arnett  Publisher Comments Whether you are a novice or experienced collector, student, farmer, or weekend gardener, you will find "Simon & Schuster's Guide to Insects" a highly authoritative, startlingly beautiful field guide to 350 insect species commonly found throughout...
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American Pests: The Losing War on Insects from Colonial Times to DDT
by James E. McWilliams Publisher Comments The World of insects is one we only dimly understand. Yet from Mrs. Ellis's Housekeeping Made Easy, the nineteenth-century guide to using arsenic, cobalt, and quicksilver to kill household infiltrators, to the sophisticated tools of the Orkin Man...
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Amber
by Andrew Ross Publisher Comments Amber has captured the human imagination for centuries, as amulets, ritual cups, and beads dating back 10,000 years attest. It is a fascinating substance, one that offers a unique intersection of the fields of paleontology, botany, entomology, and...
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Dragonflies and Damselflies of California (California Natural History Guides)
by Tim Manolis Publisher Comments The Exclamation Damsel, Bison Snaketail, Powdered Dancer, Black Meadowhawk, and Sedge Sprite are just a few of the dragonflies and damselflies identified in this complete guide to California's abundant Odonates. o Species accounts discuss identification...
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Wings of Paradise: The Great Saturniid Moths
by John Cody Publisher Comments The lovely saturniid moth, the most majestic of insects, also has one of the most poignant and romantic life stories: born without a mouth, a stomach, or any defensive mechanism beyond camouflage, each moth lives just a few days—long enough only to...
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Peterson First Guide To Caterpillars of North America (93 Edition)
by Peterson Guides Publisher Comments Here is the first and only guide to a subject of great interest to gardeners, small children, and lepidopterists: caterpillars, the immature form of butterflies and moths. This guide describes 120 common species of these fuzzy creatures. All the...
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Texas Snakes Texas Snakes: A Field Guide a Field Guide (Texas Natural History Guides)
by James Ray Dixon Publisher Comments From the legendary, fear-inspiring western diamond-backed rattlesnake to the tiny, harmless plains blind snake, Texas has a greater diversity of snake species than any other state in the country. This fully illustrated field guide to Texas snakes...
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The Anatomy of Insects & Spiders: Over 600 Exquisite Forms
by Claire Beverley Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 280-281) and index....
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The Voyage of the Beetle: A Journey Around the World with Charles Darwin and the Search for the Solution to the Mystery of Mysteries, as Narrate
by Anne H. Weaver Publisher Comments Why are there so many different kinds, or species, of living things on earth, each uniquely fitted to its environment? For Charles Darwin, this question represented the mystery of mysteries. Darwin first began to formulate an answer during a youthful...
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Butterflies Through Binoculars: The East (Butterflies Through Binoculars Series)
by Jeffrey Glassberg Publisher Comments This magnificent field guide greatly expands on Butterflies Through Binoculars: The Boston-New York-Washington Region--identified by Defenders of Wildlife Magazine as "the first to focus on netless butterflying" and called " a clear winner" by the...
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Insect Lives: Stories of Mystery and Romance from a Hidden World
by Erich Hoyt 
Powells.com Staff Pick I'm not really big on bugs (too many of them in one place give me the creeps), but I believe in facing what you fear, so I read Insect Lives. What a great book, chock full of entertaining factoids, illustrations, fascinating and humorous tidbits...
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Butterflies of the World
by Giles Martin and Myriam Baran Publisher Comments Butterflies are among the planet's most majestic creatures, their delicate forms sprinkled with brilliant color and rich with texture. More than 200,000 kinds of butterfly and caterpillar have been spotted around the world: that's one in every ten...
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The passionate observer :writings from the world of nature
by Jean Henri Fabre Publisher Comments A classic of nature writing, long out of print, is paired here with jewel-like illustrations for a beautiful gift edition, The Passionate Observer. Renowned 19th-century entomologist Jean-Henri Fabre's witty and amusing collected writings about bugs...
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The Bees of the World
by Charles D. Michener Synopsis In this extensive update of his definitive reference, Charles D. Michener reveals a diverse fauna that numbers more than 17,000 species and ranges from the common honeybee to rare bees that feed on the pollen of a single type of plant. With many new...
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The Smaller Majority: The Hidden World of the Animals That Dominate the Tropics
by Piotr Naskrecki Publisher Comments Smaller, on average, than a human finger, creatures climbing, scampering, and flying out of sight make up 99 percent of all animal life visible to the naked eye. This is the "smaller majority" that we meet eye-to-eye, often for the first time and...
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Biting Flies (Naturebooks: Creepy Crawlers)
by Patrick Merrick Publisher Comments Add wonder to your science curriculum. From familiar animals to more exotic creatures, our highly acclaimed, beautifully designed, and expertly written Naturebooks offer elementary students in-depth information they can understand about the natural world....
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Identifying British Insects and Arachnids
by Peter C. Barnard Publisher Comments Essential guide to the specialist literature for the identification of British insects and arachnids....
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The Queen Must Die: And Other Affairs of Bees and Men
by William Longgood Publisher Comments "An engaging collection of observations about honeybees and their activities".--Publishers Weekly....
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Life in the Undergrowth
by David Attenborough Publisher Comments An insect disguises itself as a flower or leaf. A spider lassoes its prey. A beetle persuades a bee to care for its young. This beautifully illustrated book by veteran naturalist Sir David Attenborough offers a rare glimpse into the secret life of...
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Practical Approach Series #191: Drosophila: A Practical Approach
by David B. (edt) Roberts Publisher Comments Drosophila--the scientist's favorite laboratory organism--is a key subject for studying genetics, development, and behavior. The second edition of this popular hands-on guide brings the methodology up-to-date, with contributions from the leading...
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