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Peterson First Guide to Insects of North America [Paperback]

Christopher Leahy (Author), Roger Tory Peterson (Editor), Richard E. White (Illustrator)
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Publication Date: Jan 23 1998 | Series: Peterson First Guide
A simplified version of the full-sized field guides makes it easy and fun to get started in the field.
 
Peterson First Guides are the first books the beginning naturalist needs. Condensed versions of the famous Peterson Field Guides, the First Guides focus on the animals, plants, and other natural things you are most likely to see. They make it fun to get into the field and easy to progress to the full-fledged Peterson Guides.

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Roger Tory Peterson, one of the world's greatest naturalists, received every major award for ornithology, natural science, and conservation as well as numerous honorary degrees, medals, and citations, including the Presidential Medal of Freedom. The Peterson Identification System has been called the greatest invention since binoculars. These editions include updated material by Michael O'Brien, Paul Lehman, Bill Thompson III, Michael DiGiorgio, Larry Rosche, and Jeffrey A. Gordon.


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1.0 out of 5 stars Disappointing Guide Nov 26 2010
By EC
Format:Paperback|Amazon Verified Purchase
The drab, blanched and substandard illustrations in this guide will surely make immediate visual identification of any insect impossible.
I will not purchase ANY additional Peterson Guides.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Peterson's First Guide to Insects of North America Sep 7 2010
By C. Clarke
Format:Paperback
An excellent first book for youngsters! Plain and simple language, good illustrations. Well done. Some of the more rare species missing but this does not detract from the end product.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Best beginners' guide Dec 11 2005
By Dennis R. Mitton - Published on Amazon.com
Format:Paperback
I have quite a few `bug' guides and the Peterson guides are always my favorite. The drawings are excellent, the writing is clear, and I like the behavioral and collecting notes added. There are more flashy guides with more pictures but they tend to be more limited - you can only put so many pictures in a book. They also usually cost much more. This is the book I would buy for someone wanting to learn more about the entire insect world and begin identifying the bugs they find. If their interest grows I would simply move up the full version of the same book.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Perhaps the best field guide to the insects of North America May 15 2005
By Hallstatt Prince - Published on Amazon.com
Format:Paperback
This is a great book for both the beginner as well as those who are at the intermediate level of their study of insects.

It makes for a good first exposure to the taxonomic key. I professor who I knew who taught entomology at Loyola University in Chicago had this book as one of the course texts for his students. I am sure he is not alone. Illustrated with both line drawings and photographs it is the standard work on insects of North America.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Not quite what I thought it was Nov 2 2007
By A. Brooksby - Published on Amazon.com
Format:Paperback|Amazon Verified Purchase
This is a great book for common name identification of a wide variety of insects. However, I could not find any scientific names; not even the names of the different orders or families.
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