A Peterson Field Guide to Insects: America North of Mexico - Couverture souple

Borror, Donald J.; White, Richard E.

 
9780395911709: A Peterson Field Guide to Insects: America North of Mexico
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0395911702 ISBN 13 : 9780395911709
Editeur : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1998

Synopsis

Find what you're looking for with Peterson Field Guides—their field-tested visual identification system is designed to help you differentiate thousands of unique species accurately every time.
 
Detailed descriptions of insect orders, families, and many individual species are illustrated with 1,300 drawings and 142 superb color paintings. Illustrations - which use the unique Peterson Identification System to distinguish one insect from another - include size lines to show the actual length of each insect. A helpful glossary explains the technical terms of insect anatomy.

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À propos des auteurs

Donald J. Borror has worked as a professor of entomology at Ohio State University. With Dwight M. DeLong, he is coauthor of An Introduction to the Study of Insects, a widely used textbook. Dr. Borror recorded The Songs of Insects, one of the Sounds of Nature disks in the Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology series, with Richard D. Alexander.
 

ROGER TORY PETERSON, one of the world’s greatest naturalists, received every major award for ornithology, natural science, and conservation as well as numerous honorary degrees, medals, and citations, including the Presidential Medal of Freedom. The Peterson Identification System has been called the greatest invention since binoculars.

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Éditeur
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Date d'édition
1998
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0395911702
ISBN 13 
9780395911709
Reliure
Broché
Numéro d'édition
2
Nombre de pages
416
Éditeur
Tory Peterson Roger
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
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