California Insects: Volume 44

by Charles L. Hogue and Jerry A. Powell

Book Overview

This volume is the first attempt in more than half a century to provide a field guide for beginning students and the nonspecialist reader. It selects about 600 of the most characteristic kinds of... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520037820
• ISBN13: 9780520037823
• Release Date: September 1980
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 4.8" x 7.9"

Customer Reviews

An enjoyable read for Californians

Having mastered Bugs of Northern California, the perfect local book for beginners, I was ready to move on, and this book is the perfect next step--limited to California, but still very complete. There is one set of color plates, so those expecting color photos for every bug will be disappointed. However, what I love are the descriptions--they are well written and very informative. Even limited to California, there are more flies than I will ever be able to identify, yet the descriptions of their differences are still fascinating.