A Field Guide to Spiders & Scorpions of Texas (Gulf Publishing Field Guide Series) [Paperback]

John A. Jackman (Author)

Book Description

Series: Gulf Publishing Field Guide Series | Publication Date: June 1, 1999

Classified into more than 45 families, this guide describes the fascinating spiders and other arachnids of Texas. You'll find all the facts for spiders most commonly encountered, spiders with potentially hazardous venom, unusual spiders, and large conspicious spiders. Other Texas arachnids, such as harvestmen, ticks, scorpions, whipscorpions,windscorpions, and pseudoscorpions, are also described.

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About the Author

John A. Jackman, Ph.D., is a professor and extension entomology specialist at the Texas A&M University System, College Station, Texas. He is a member of the Entomological Society of America.

Product Details

• Paperback: 202 pages
• Publisher: Taylor Trade Publishing (June 1, 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0891230483
• ISBN-13: 978-0891230489
• Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.5 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #669,376 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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18 of 20 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Somewhat good pictures and descriptions but not very helpful, November 14, 2003

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Brad Hutchinson (Katy, TX United States) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: A Field Guide to Spiders & Scorpions of Texas (Gulf Publishing Field Guide Series) (Paperback)

This book is less suited as a field guide and more of a biology lesson on overall spider taxonomy. In my opinion a FIELD GUIDE should provide pictures of spiders that you would commonly run into in the FIELD, but this book does not fulfill that expectation. There have been only about one or two spiders i've came across that I have been able to identify by using this field guide out of literally thousands (I spend a lot of time in wooded areas). With the extremely low amount of photos in this guide, any other spiders I am absolutely not able to identify by using this guide. Out of all the Texas Field Guides this is clearly the poorest written one since it probably only has pictures of about 1% of the spiders in the state of Texas. I had originally bought this in order to see which spiders carry the most potent venom other than the obvious black widow & brown recluse, but that is not in here either...just biology. If you are looking for something to help identify spiders in the state of Texas this is about the only choice at the moment, although an average one at best.

13 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars HOPE IT'S BETTER THAN THE LAST ONE, December 12, 2004

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Mary Nears - See all my reviews
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This review is from: A Field Guide to Spiders & Scorpions of Texas (Gulf Publishing Field Guide Series) (Paperback)

I keep buying all the Texas Monthly field guide books to snakes, fossils, insects, trees, etc., but the spider guide has been the most disappointing. I am accidentally encountering spiders on a weekly basis that aren't in the guide. Maybe it's because I live on the coast and Home Land Security isn't checking the banana boats closely enough.

11 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars good, but incomplete, March 3, 2004

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Mary Nears (anahuac, texas United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: A Field Guide to Spiders & Scorpions of Texas (Gulf Publishing Field Guide Series) (Paperback)

The only problem i have with this book is that, as a Texan living in Texas, i keep encountering spiders not identified or even remotely mentioned in this book. To top it off, neither can the county agent.