Insects: Revised and Updated (Golden Guide) Review

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(More customer reviews)Almost the first book on insects that I ever acquired was a hardbound edition of this little guide in the early 1950s.Indeed, I wore out several copies before I graduated to Lutz's "Field Book of Insects" and later more up to date guides.While a bit behind in modern systematics, this guide still has enchanting pictures, mostly the same ones I poured over during my childhood.It was here I first caught the insect "bug" that eventually propelled me into a career in biological sciences. Zim's early "Golden Guide to Insects" was a magic carpet into the fantastic world of insects and I think that it must still be luring young people to at least appreciate the six-legged crowd. I know that the images in this book are still burned into my brain, especially that of the beautiful buckeye butterfly and the various horned scarab and carrion beetles.

I highly recommend this book for children as a first insect book, but I sort of wish they had kept the original yellow cover!

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Product Description:
Enjoy and Learn!
Expert Knowledge!
Easy-to-Read!

This handy guide to the most common, important and showy North American insects will help the novice begin a fascinating study.Includes:
A key to insect groups
Mature and immature forms
How insects grow and develop and what they eat
How to find and observe them

Full color pictures, nontechnical language, and up-to-date range maps make this a gem of a guide for beginners at any age.