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Kaufman Field Guide to Insects of North America (Kaufman Field Guides) Turtleback – Bargain Price, February 28, 2007

by Eric R. Eaton (Author), Kenn Kaufman (Author)
4.7 4.7 out of 5 stars 470 ratings
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Many insects are difficult even for the experts to identify. In the new Kaufman Field Guide to Insects of North America, readers will find a wealth of information on the amazing observable behaviors of insects and their fascinating life histories. Naturalists Kenn Kaufman and Eric R. Eaton use a broad ecological approach rather than overly technical terms, making the book accessible and understandable for everyone. The lively and engaging text emphasizes the insects that are most likely to catch our attention but includes information on all groups that can be recognized. The guide is lavishly illustrated, with more than 2,350 digitally enhanced photographs representing every major group of insects found in North America north of Mexico. Comprehensive yet compact, authoritative yet easy to understand, this is the perfect guide for anyone who wants to know more about the fascinating and diverse insects of North America.
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  1. Print length
    392 pages
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    English
  3. Publisher
    Mariner Books
  4. Publication date
    February 28, 2007
  5. Dimensions
    1 x 5 x 7.75 inches
  6. ISBN-10
    0618153101
  7. ISBN-13
    978-0618153107
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4.7 out of 5 stars
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Customers find the book comprehensive, useful, and filled with details on habitat and behavior of different species. They appreciate the nice, beautiful, and striking pictures. Readers describe the content as excellent, good, and quality. They also like how the book is organized and well-laid out.

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83 customers mention "Information content"72 positive11 negative

Customers find the information in the book comprehensive, good, and useful. They mention it's filled with great photos and details on habitat and behavior of different species. Readers also appreciate the accuracy, clarity, and conciseness of the text. They say the pictures and descriptions are easy to understand and make it easier to find groups of similar insects.

"Bought this for class, it’s great! Pictures and descriptions are easy to understand." Read more

"...Very extensive--covers all of North America (US). Not too technical. Lots of photos...." Read more

"This is a wonderful guide for the field and I was so relieved when I found it...." Read more

"...It lists many species with colored photos and gives nice lengthy descriptions for most of them...." Read more

34 customers mention "Pictures"34 positive0 negative

Customers find the pictures in the book nice, great, and beautiful. They say the reproductions are good, the content accurate, and the book is an amazing reference guide. Readers also appreciate the color-coded pages for the sections.

"...Not too technical. Lots of photos. Could use more butterflies with their caterpillars and food plants, because everybody likes butterfies...." Read more

"...The pictures are all very nice and the book overall is very pleasing to the eye. The cover and binding seem like they will stand up to field use...." Read more

"...This book made him very happy. It is beautiful and the turtle back cover, an excellent idea. Thank you." Read more

"...The pages of the book are color-coded so you can go to the right section immediately...." Read more

30 customers mention "Content"30 positive0 negative

Customers find the content excellent, comprehensive, and impressive. They say it's an excellent complement to the Peterson insect book.

"Bought this for class, it’s great! Pictures and descriptions are easy to understand." Read more

"...It is beautiful and the turtle back cover, an excellent idea. Thank you." Read more

"...The Kaufman affords one such path, a sensible and pleasant one, if keying out every last beasty isn't your first priority...." Read more

"The content of the book is good, as expected for this line of guides...." Read more

11 customers mention "Organization"8 positive3 negative

Customers find the book well-organized and user-friendly. They appreciate the nice pictures and writing.

"...It is a great sized and well organized with avoiding unnecessary/excessive information that other field guides do..." Read more

"...The book's organization is logical; the writing is accurate, clear, and concise; and the nearly 2,500 color photos of representative species are..." Read more

"...a quick ID and want to know the common English name, it is not quite so user-friendly...." Read more

"...the most part, the pictures were very helpful and the organization in this book is great." Read more

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Customers find the book a good gift idea.

"Loved this book. It made a great gift for my son. Very well laid out book. Very user friendly" Read more

"Excellent holiday gift to stimulate a person's interest in insects...." Read more

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SimonSays
5.0 out of 5 stars Fantastic
Reviewed in the United States on January 4, 2024
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Bought this for class, it’s great! Pictures and descriptions are easy to understand.
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Alan J. Sawyer
5.0 out of 5 stars Great guide for the amateur
Reviewed in the United States on December 16, 2022
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And I'm a professional entomologist. Better than Peterson or Golden Nature Guides for someone wanting to ID an insect in the yard or field. Very extensive--covers all of North America (US). Not too technical. Lots of photos. Could use more butterflies with their caterpillars and food plants, because everybody likes butterfies. Could also offer more on life history, behavior and habitat. I gave one to my daughter because she's always calling me up to ask "What is this?" Also gave her Kaufman's Field Guide to the Nature of New England, another nice book.
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Jeff C
5.0 out of 5 stars Beautiful, Great for a Backyard Entomolgist
Reviewed in the United States on February 16, 2007
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This Field Guide sticks to the same tried and true format as the other Kaufman Field Guides (Birds, Butterflies, and Mammals). Every odd page is packed with digitally touched-up pictures of various insects and the even pages contain brief descriptions of the species/family, their habits, etc... Given the enormity of the insect fauna in North America north of Mexico (the region covered by this guide) it is obvious that a field guide such as this is not going to be able to cover but a fraction of what is out there. Additionally the target audience is not entomologists but rather more causal insect and nature lovers. As a result the selection of insects that are covered is limited. The authors in the introduction state that the guide focuses on "naked-eye entomology".

There are a few pages in the beginning devoted to non-insect invertebrates (spiders, millipedes, ...). It would have been nice if this section was a bit more comprehensive, then again maybe this foreshadows a future Kaufman Spiders field guide!

The pictures are all very nice and the book overall is very pleasing to the eye. The cover and binding seem like they will stand up to field use. Overall I am very pleased with this book and would recommend it to anyone with an interest in insects.
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Adam
5.0 out of 5 stars Great! Insects shown as would be seen in the field and a good explanations
Reviewed in the United States on August 31, 2019
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This is a wonderful guide for the field and I was so relieved when I found it. The insects appear posed as you would see them in the field rather than other (usually older) field guides based on pinned specimens. It is a great sized and well organized with avoiding unnecessary/excessive information that other field guides do (which turns them into more of a daunting encyclopedia than a field guide). The species featured are also good representatives of their taxon. This guide is honest about advice on getting from family-level to genera and species and indicates the number of species within a general to help users understand how large and diverse some taxon are.
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Stephen Norris
4.0 out of 5 stars Good guide but ....
Reviewed in the United States on December 7, 2012
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First off, realize that this book is about all there is for a comprehensive guide for the entire region. The basic idea of making ANY kind of a comprehensive listing much less guide to "the insects of N.A." is almost laughable but you have to start somewhere!
It is a good reference and guide but does have several drawbacks in my opinion:

First off, it is a great reference if you are looking at a picture and want to know/learn the Latin names of bugs (Entomological Etymology). It lists the bugs by family and genus first and then drills down to to individual bugs. In some cases not very many. If, however, you are looking just for a quick ID and want to know the common English name, it is not quite so user-friendly.

One of my pet peaves is that ALL of the pictures are labeled in Latin ONLY. That makes the ID very exact but, to me, that is very inconvenient and indirect.

Each right hand side page is a plate of photo/pictures and the left is a prose description. I say prose because it is a flowing description that, scientifically, make sense but from an easy to find a bug standpoint, is a bit too technically slanted.

In order to ID a bug, you have to:
* Find the picture (means looking through many pages as the plates are not all in the same section of the book.)
* Look at your bug and read the Latin (only) name
* Refer to the facing page
* Scan down the "prose"
* Read until you see your Latin name
* Finally find the common name and description!

Each species or even family is not listed separately as in virtually every other nature/bird guide I've ever encountered!

Even bearing in mind the herculean task at hand, it is lacking in some basic insects with interesting results e.g. the Unicorn Mantis, which is a native mantid to N.A is not listed at all but several other non-native mantids are listed. Interesting.

Very little is included about lifestyles and particular insect behavior or unique practices. Me, I want to know that the tarantula hawk (wasp) lays its eggs on tarantulas that it paralyzes and the babies eat the spider from within. Not much of that sort in this guide.

It really is a good guide just not arranged to my comfort style of perusing and simply ID'ing.

If you are into really learning the etymology and scientific details, it may be the perfect book for you!

Hope this helps,
Steve
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H#6
5.0 out of 5 stars Exactly what he was looking for!
Reviewed in the United States on October 2, 2023
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A retired biologist moving to a different area of the state with some new questions regarding insects. This book made him very happy. It is beautiful and the turtle back cover, an excellent idea. Thank you.
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Cath in CT
5.0 out of 5 stars It's my go-to insect guide
Reviewed in the United States on January 11, 2023
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Insects are such a large class that it is difficult to get a guide that shows everything. But this one can be used to get you in the right area. The first 4 pages show typical specimens of the various main groups, to point you in the right general direction. The pages of the book are color-coded so you can go to the right section immediately. And then I just start looking until I find something that looks about right. It doesn't have all the insects in, it can't in a guide of this size. But then I can go on the web and try to identify the insect more exactly. As a Master Gardener I have to answer questions from the public. There wasn't a copy of this guide in our local Extension Center so I bought them one, as I thought it would be useful. I prefer to look at a book rather than use a phone app, as it teaches better powers of observation. The apps give wrong answers and people don't know whether the app answer is correct or not.
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R. Freeman
5.0 out of 5 stars Amazed
Reviewed in Canada on February 29, 2024
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I bought this book after someone told me it was one of their favorite day carries... and now I know why. I have never cared much for bugs, but now I find them fascinating. The photos and descriptions are very well laid out and makes identifying the hundreds of species of insects all around us a really cool endeavor. On camping trips, everyone is always pointing out bugs to me and wanting to look them up.

The quality of the book is excellent. Has that waxy high-quality paper. I have a ton of books, and this one is like a hobby in your hand. Pick it up, look in a corner of your closet, and try and figure out what kind of tiny spider that is... super fun.
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Kevin Garibaldi Fierro
5.0 out of 5 stars muy buena guia
Reviewed in Mexico on March 3, 2023
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recomiendo si te gusta la entomología
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Milko
5.0 out of 5 stars Necesito que cambien la dirección de la factura pero no tiene una opción de contacto
Reviewed in Mexico on October 4, 2020
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Buenos días

Necesito que, por favor, cambien la dirección de la FACTURA por:

Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León
Ciudad Universitaria
Ave. Universidad S/N
San Nicolás de los Garza, N.L.
México
CP 66455

Gracias de antemano

César Cantú
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Jan H
5.0 out of 5 stars Easy to Use
Reviewed in Canada on August 11, 2019
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Great field guide that simplifies insect identification for beginners (I'm an absolute beginner). It would have been nice to have more details on the different bugs, but then it would be too big to have in the field or would have to sacrifice some of the images which would not be a good tradeoff. You just have to remember the insects you identify and google them after.
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Shawn
5.0 out of 5 stars Very useful
Reviewed in Canada on March 29, 2018
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Quite good. Makes it really easy to get the bug down to the family. Lots of photos.
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