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Kaufman Field Guide to Insects of North America (Kaufman Field Guides)
written by Kenn Kaufman, Eric R. Eaton
Studio : Houghton Mifflin
by Houghton Mifflin
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin
Released : 2007-02-28
Availability : Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Number of Items : 1
EAN : 9780618153107
Avg. Customer Rating: (based on 18 reviews)
List Price : $18.95
Our Price : $10.80
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Product Description |
Many insects are difficult even for the experts to identify. In the
new Kaufman Field Guide to Insects of North America, readers
will find a wealth of information on the amazing observable behaviors of
insects and their fascinating life histories. Naturalists Kenn Kaufman
and Eric R. Eaton use a broad ecological approach rather than overly technical terms, making the book accessible and understandable for everyone. The lively and engaging text emphasizes the insects that are most
likely to catch our attention but includes information on all groups that
can be recognized. The guide is lavishly illustrated, with more than
2,350 digitally enhanced photographs representing every major group
of insects found in North America north of Mexico. Comprehensive yet
compact, authoritative yet easy to understand, this is the perfect guide
for anyone who wants to know more about the fascinating and diverse
insects of North America. |
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Good intro field guide |
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The strengths of this book are the excellent photos (digitally touched up, that is), good, basic info, and a clear but informative, non-technical writing style. As with any field guide intended for the general reader, the picture method of identification has its pitfalls, but still, insects (at least to the family and genus level) are much easier to identify with a decent field guide than plants or especially fungi and mushrooms, due to their depauperate character suite. So overall, a nice guide to enhance one's knowledge and appreciation of the insect phylum. You can learn a lot from this guide, but I recommend that for every serious amateur naturalist you try to learn enough to some day attempt formal, professional taxonomic keys to the major groups of insects. |
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A Grown-Up Golden Guide! |
I think this book is perfect. It has just enough of everything so that the book is affordable and light enough to really be a FIELD guide. The pictures are terrific...there are just enough on a page so your eye can easily scan when you are looking for a particular insect.
This guide has about 400 pages and more than 2,350 images so OF COURSE it isn't going to have lots of details about every insect. And since, according to one reviewer, there are about 10,000 insects in North America, OF COURSE it isn't going to have every insect. What it DOES have is enough illustrations so you can find something VERY close if you can't find the exact insect. With that information, you can go to the internet and look up the details without wading through lots of irrelevant material--I was spending FAR too much time on whatsthatbug dot com and bugguide dot net before I got this book.
This is the handiest insect book I have had since I was about 6 and wore out my Golden Guide! If you are debating about getting the book, just do it--it's only about $13 and this is Americancivilwar--you can send it back if you don't like it. I'm betting you won't be sending it back. |
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Great for your nature library |
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This is a great adjunct to the Peterson Field Guide to The Insects...A serious bug nut should have them both, the Peterson for the text and Kaufman for the many excellent photos. |
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Another hit for Kenn Kaufman |
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Kenn Kaufman and his team have put out another easy to use and beautiful to look at field guide. Unlike many insect field guides out there, the reader does not need any scientific knowledge to use this effectively. It has color-coded pages for the sections, and section sub-headings like "If it's really small or really weird looking, try here". Of course, no insect guide weighing less than a small car can include all the insects of North America, but this one has an impressive number of insects, useful photos of every one, and good information on them. |
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Best insect guide to date |
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This is the best field guide available for the novice or experienced entomologist. The diversity of insects shown are beautifully illustrated and their identifications are accurate. The guide is very user-friendly with different easy ways to access insects by groups, common names, and scientific names. The descriptions, although brief, are very informative and highlight pertinent aspects of the insect groups or individual species being discussed. The authors are to be commended for producing the very first insect guide that enables an individual unfamiliar with entomology to rapidly get at least a good idea of the kind of insect he or she is trying to identify, and with so many common insects illustrated, a specific identification is possible in many cases. |
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