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| National Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Insects and Spiders (National Audubon Society Field Guides) | 
| Author: National Audubon Society
Publisher: Knopf
Category: Book
List Price: $19.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  46 reviews
Sales Rank: 4958
Media: Imitation Leather
Edition: 1
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 992
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.4
Dimensions (in): 7.7 x 3.8 x 1.5
ISBN: 0394507630
Dewey Decimal Number: 595.7097
EAN: 9780394507637
ASIN: 0394507630
Publication Date: November 12, 1980
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| Customer Reviews:
 National Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Insects and Spiders (Audubon Society Field Guide) November 11, 2006
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
I prefer the Peterson Guide. Audonbon's photographs are beautiful, but not always useful for the details.
 National Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Insects and Spiders November 4, 2006
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This is an excellent guide to identify insects. My daughter usually collects insects and puts a collection together each summer, and this has been very helpful to help her identify nearly all of her insect specimens.
Good book for looking up BUGS!! November 4, 2006
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
We have several "field guide" books i.e. books about trees. animal tracks,etc. This book helped us to learn about the insects, caterpillars, etc. we were seeing in our environment. The photos are full color, the descriptions are concise and easy to read. We like this book and we're glad we bought it.
Great Guide October 3, 2006
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
This Is a field guide and it is a good one, you may not be able to ID what you are looking at but you can narrow it down for further research. I use this with two other books one on spiders and one on dragonflys and have been able to ID everthing pretty easyly
Fantastic For A "Guide" July 16, 2006
9 out of 9 found this review helpful
I bought this book because I am a photographer with a growing interest in spiders and insects, and I need to know what my subjects are. Before I bought this book, I mostly did Internet research to try to find the exact species. Since I'm not an entomologist or arachnologist, I'm sure you can imagine that my search words often weren't very effective (for example, brown spider in California). Now that I have this book, IDing spiders and insects is much easier. I'm not saying that everything I take a picture of is in here; in fact, the exact species often aren't. But most of the time I can narrow it down to the point where further research is much more successful. This book also explains the correct terminology, which is extremely helpful when searching online or in other books. I know a lot of people out there are disappointed because this book is missing so many species. But honestly, they should have known better than to expect a small FIELD GUIDE to contain so much. If you're looking for a complete encyclopedia of insects or spiders, this book will very disappointing. But if you're looking for a GUIDE (i.e., you're an amateur and you just need to be pointed in the right direction), then you should find this book extremely helpful.
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