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Dragonflies of North America

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The latest revision of Needham's classic handbook to the dragonflies of North America has raised this volume to an all time high. Needham, if he were alive today, would be proud. The book is the new standard for all odontologists in North America. It is, indeed, difficult for me to criticize this monumental tome because it simply stands alone in its class. A wealth of new information collected by co-authors Westfall and May has enriched the description of the Anisoptera fauna to the point that dragonflies are now, after butterflies and perhaps some popular beetle and moth families, the best known group of insects in the continent. These creatures are well worth getting to know, as a recent handbook for binocular study and several more past and recent handbooks on local faunas (Florida and California) attest.

If you are seriously interested in the Odonata and do not already have this book you should order it as soon as you can afford it. It is well worth the wait!