Insects: A Guide to Familiar American Insects
by Herbert Spencer Zim, Clarence Cottam
Golden Guides (Nature)
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A guide to North American insects which gives popular name, describes life and reproduction cycles and feeding habits, and includes a range guide.Tags
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The Golden Guides, I’ve found, are a joy to get a quick overview of one subject or another. The fact that they’re pocket-sized also makes them great.
In this volume, Zim et al. present the great wide world of insects, being careful to avoid most non-insect arthropods (though giving them a shout-out when necessary). I learned quite a bit from the few pages this book contained, especially that most of the scary-looking decoration that bugs have isn’t for ruining our lives if we try to pick them up. It’s mostly for show. Good to know next time I want to pick up a rhinoceros beetle!
I think that this book would make an excellent gift to a child interested in the world of insects, and that it would make a fantastic springboard into a show more long-term interest, if not career, in entomology (the bug one, not the word one). It’s also fine for adults as well. show less
In this volume, Zim et al. present the great wide world of insects, being careful to avoid most non-insect arthropods (though giving them a shout-out when necessary). I learned quite a bit from the few pages this book contained, especially that most of the scary-looking decoration that bugs have isn’t for ruining our lives if we try to pick them up. It’s mostly for show. Good to know next time I want to pick up a rhinoceros beetle!
I think that this book would make an excellent gift to a child interested in the world of insects, and that it would make a fantastic springboard into a show more long-term interest, if not career, in entomology (the bug one, not the word one). It’s also fine for adults as well. show less
This is a good basic book on insects which I was introduced to as a young man which perked my interest in the world of insects. The illustrations are well done and the book focuses on mostly common insects that you will find in North America. I have other more detailed books but I always return to this book to refresh my basic knowledge of insects.
I acquired this book when I was a mere lad, and I'm still fascinated by it. It has some great information about bugs.
A guide to North American insects which gives popular name, describes life and reproduction cycles and feeding habits, and includes a range guide.
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Herbert S. Zim was born in 1909 in New York City. He was a naturalist, author, editor and also known as the fonder and editor in chief of the Golden Guides series of nature books. Zim wrote or edited more than one hundred scientific books, and in a thirty-year career teaching in the public schools introduced laboratory instruction into elementary show more school science. He is best known as the founder in 1945, of the Golden Guides, pocket-size introductions for children to such subjects as fossils, zoology, microscopy, rocks and minerals, codes and secret writings, trees, wildflowers, dinosaurs, navigation and more. He was the sole or co-author for many of the books, which were valued for their clarity, accuracy and attractive presentation helped by the illustrations of James Gordon Irving. He continued to work on the Golden Guides series until Alzheimer's disease forced him to slow down in the 1990s. He died in 1994 at Plantation Key, Florida. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Insects: A Guide to Familiar American Insects
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- By dealing with only common, important, and showy insects, this book will help a novice begin a fascinating study.
Foreword: This book is one of the most ambitious attempted in the Golden Nature Guide series. - Last words
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