Pacific Northwest Insects
528 pages, 6 x 9
1725 color photos, 50 original line drawings of insect body forms, and 2 regional maps
Paperback
Release Date:01 Sep 2018
ISBN:9780914516187
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Pacific Northwest Insects

Seattle Audubon

This field guide sets a new standard for insect identification, making it an indispensable resource to naturalists, educators, gardeners, and others. Engaging and accessible, Pacific Northwest Insects features detailed species accounts, each with a vivid photograph of a living adult, along with information for distinguishing similar species, allowing the reader to identify more than 3,000 species found from southern British Columbia to northern California, and as far east as Montana. The book features most of the commonly encountered insects, spiders, scorpions, millipedes, centipedes, and kin in the Pacific Northwest, as well as representatives of an amazing variety of unusual and interesting insects living in the area. After more than a decade of research, reviewing hundreds of thousands of museum specimens and scouring the technical entomological literature, Merrill Peterson has brought together for the first time in a single volume a wealth of information on the region's insect life.

  • Detailed identifying information on over 3,000 species
  • Complete description of 1,200 species
  • Organized by insect group for easy identification
  • Up-to-date taxonomy
RELATED TOPICS: BC Studies, Nature, Regional Studies

Merrill A. Peterson is a professor and chair of biology at Western Washington University in Bellingham, WA, and an adjunct professor of entomology at Washington State University.

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