Kaufman Field Guide to Insects of North America (Kaufman Field Guides) | 
 enlarge | Authors: Kenn Kaufman, Eric R. Eaton
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
Category: Book
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Rating:  21 reviews
Sales Rank: 25884
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Edition: 1
Pages: 392
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Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.3
Dimensions (in): 7.6 x 4.6 x 1.1
ISBN: 0618153101
Dewey Decimal Number: 595.7097
EAN: 9780618153107
ASIN: 0618153101
Publication Date: February 28, 2007
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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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| Customer Reviews: Read 16 more reviews...
 Kaufman's Guide to insects of North America November 25, 2008
Anthony Mcpherson (Springfield, MA)
Good enough for just identifying most insects, but no real information on "what" they are.
 Excellent Book September 22, 2008
Bug Lover (Missouri)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I am an entomologist and have 2 copies of this - one for home and one for work. Pictures are great! Every time I thumb through, it I learn something new. I think it is the best guide on the market right now! Biggest selling point to me: Some field guides have a picture of an insect that has several species that look similar but give the perception that all the insects that look similar to the one pictured is the one pictured when that is really not the case. So I love that they mention that there are a certain number of species in the genus that look similar so that you know that what you have may not be the one pictured, but a closely related species.
Totally Bugged Out September 10, 2008
B. York (Lewiston, ID USA)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
This book includes lots of good pictures and basic despcriptions of bugs-it has made it very easy to identify many bugs I have encountered. I would like more fun facts and details to be included, but overall, this is a great guide for adults and children alike to learn to identify bugs!
Good intro field guide August 14, 2008
magellan (Santa Clara, CA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
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.
A Grown-Up Golden Guide! July 17, 2008
Marilyn Jones (Mason, Texas)
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
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 Amazon--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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