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Caterpillars of Eastern North America: A Guide to Identification and Natural History (Princeton Field Guides) Review

Caterpillars of Eastern North America: A Guide to Identification and Natural History (Princeton Field Guides) Overview

This lavishly illustrated guide will enable you to identify the caterpillars of nearly 700 butterflies and moths found east of the Mississippi. The more than 1,200 color photographs and two dozen line drawings include numerous exceptionally striking images. The giant silk moths, tiger moths, and many other species covered include forest pests, common garden guests, economically important species, and of course, the Mescal Worm and Mexican Jumping Bean caterpillars. Full-page species accounts cover almost 400 species, with up to six images per species including an image of the adult plus succinct text with information on distribution, seasonal activity, foodplants, and life history. These accounts are generously complemented with additional images of earlier instars, closely related species, noteworthy behaviors, and other intriguing aspects of caterpillar biology.

Many caterpillars are illustrated here for the first time. Dozens of new foodplant records are presented and erroneous records are corrected. The book provides considerable information on the distribution, biology, and taxonomy of caterpillars beyond that available in other popular works on Eastern butterflies and moths. The introductory chapter covers caterpillar structure, life cycles, rearing, natural enemies, photography, and conservation. The section titled "Caterpillar Projects" will be of special interest to educators.

Given the dearth of accessible guides on the identification and natural history of caterpillars, Caterpillars of Eastern North America is a must for entomologists and museum curators, forest managers, conservation biologists and others who seek a compact, easy-to-use guide to the caterpillars of this vast region.

• A compact guide to nearly 700 caterpillars east of the Mississippi, from forest pests to garden guests and economically important species
• 1,200 color photos and 24 line drawings enable easy identification
• Full-page species accounts with image of adult insect for almost 400 species, plus succinct text on distribution and other vital information
• Many caterpillars illustrated here for the first time
• Current information on distribution, biology, and taxonomy not found in other popular works
• A section geared toward educators, "Caterpillar Projects"
• An indispensable resource for all who seek an easy-to-use guide to the caterpillars of this vast region

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Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place Overview

In the spring of 1983 Terry Tempest Williams learned that her mother was dying of cancer. That same season, The Great Salt Lake began to rise to record heights, threatening the herons, owls, and snowy egrets that Williams, a poet and naturalist, had come to gauge her life by. One event was nature at its most random, the other a by-product of rogue technology: Terry's mother, and Terry herself, had been exposed to the fallout of atomic bomb tests in the 1950s. As it interweaves these narratives of dying and accommodation, Refuge transforms tragedy into a document of renewal and spiritual grace, resulting in a work that has become a classic.


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The only constants in nature are change and death. Terry Tempest Williams, a naturalist and writer from northern Utah, has seen her share of both. The pages of Refuge resound with the deaths of her mother and grandmother and other women from cancer, the result of the American government's ongoing nuclear-weapons tests in the nearby Nevada desert. You won't find the episode in the standard history textbooks; the Feds wouldn't admit to conducting the tests until women and men in Utah, Nevada, and northwestern Arizona took the matter to court in the mid-1980s, and by then thousands of Americans had fallen victim to official technology. Parallel to her account of this devastation, Williams describes changes in bird life at the sanctuaries dotting the shores of the Great Salt Lake as water levels rose during the unusually wet early 1980s and threatened the nesting grounds of dozens of species. In this world of shattered eggs and drowned shorebirds, Williams reckons with the meaning of life, alternating despair and joy.

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Prehistoric Life: The Definitive Visual History of Life on Earth Review

Years ago my course of study was a B.S. in anthropology and in my opinion this book is not only a fine, detailed one of both words and photos for both paleontology and prehistory, but will remain so for the near future. A time will come no doubt when another volume will update the information, however, for now this is a book most readers will enjoy.

My wife said upon seeing the book something as "Wow, what a coffee table book". I answered yes but if read much more indeed. She of course referred to the overall size of this book, which is mammoth compared to most scholarly books. The book will far surpass the tag "coffee table book" once the reader begins to mine its depths. I read Scientific American magazine each month and for any reader who does likewise cannot see that this book and subject will not be a veritable feast for their eyes and brain.

I can easily offer this book up to readers who have interest in the subject of prehistoric life up to present time. The book may not be the best that has ever been, nor it may not be the best of all time and all time to come, but it is one fine book indeed for the present time.

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Prehistoric Life: The Definitive Visual History of Life on Earth Overview

With an extensive catalog at its heart, Prehistoric Life profiles hundreds of fascinating species in incredible detail. The story starts in earnest 3.8 billion years ago, with the earliest-known form of life on Earth, a bacteria that still exists today, and journeys through action-packed millennia, charting the appearance of new life forms as well as devastating extinction events. Of course, the ever-popular and endlessly intriguing dinosaurs feature large, but Prehistoric Life gives you the whole picture, and the plants, invertebrates, amphibians, birds, reptiles, and mammals that are the ancestors of today's species also populate its pages, making this book unprecedented in its coverage of prehistory. Specially commissioned artworks use cutting-edge technology to render species in breathtakingly realistic fashion, with astonishing images of prehistoric remains, such as skeletons and fossils, to complete the story. To put all the evidence in context, the concept of geological time is explored, as is the classification of species and how the evidence for their evolution is preserved and can be deciphered.

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Should be in very Biology classroom - Jordan Tiffany - MI, USA
This is an amazing textbook. It is very well illustrated, contains a wealth of information; fossils, timeline of species existence, evolutionary hierarchy of people, classification, etc. Well worth the or so that Amazon charges (I paid about at Borders, and was still pleased.



Prehistoric intersts? - Per Topsøe-Jensen -
Should you or your teenage children be interested in prehistoric life on Earth then this visual history book is a must.
Not only is the text and time graphs of excellent quality, so are all the pictures.
You will find too much information and have to make a small personal plan for absorbing everything.
The book is modern, may be a bit heavy, but a pleasure to study, also for readers entering the prehistoric age for the first time.



So Much Information! - Geo Girl -
This book lures you in, not only with the unbeilievable photographs, but also with the vast amount of information and species richness it includes. It's worth so much more than the price on here. I higly recommend this book from the curious minds, to professional scientists!




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