(Part 3) Top products from r/whatsthisbug
We found 20 product mentions on r/whatsthisbug. We ranked the 125 resulting products by number of redditors who mentioned them. Here are the products ranked 41-60. You can also go back to the previous section.
41. The Very Hungry Caterpillar
Sentiment score: 0
Number of reviews: 1
CHILDREN FOR FUN AND EDUCATION BOOK
44. Field Guide to Beetles of California (California Natural History Guides)
Sentiment score: 1
Number of reviews: 1
45. Adventures among Ants: A Global Safari with a Cast of Trillions
Sentiment score: 0
Number of reviews: 1
Used Book in Good Condition
46. Common Spiders of North America
Sentiment score: 1
Number of reviews: 1
Used Book in Good Condition
47. Evolution of the Insects (Cambridge Evolution Series)
Sentiment score: 0
Number of reviews: 1
Used Book in Good Condition
48. Peterson Field Guide to Moths of Northeastern North America (Peterson Field Guides)
Sentiment score: 1
Number of reviews: 1
Peterson Field Guide to Moths of Northeastern North America
49. Insect Lore Butterfly Growing Kit - With Voucher to Redeem Caterpillars Later
Sentiment score: 0
Number of reviews: 1
Pop up, reusable 11.5 inch tall mesh habitat perfect for butterfly viewing; includes feeding dropper and complete instructionsWitness one of nature's most spectacular transformations up closeCaterpillars ship separately via included voucher (Additional $7.95 for processing); Packaging may varyShippi...
50. I'm Trying to Love Spiders
Sentiment score: 1
Number of reviews: 1
Viking Books for Young Readers
51. For Love of Insects
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Number of reviews: 1
Used Book in Good Condition
52. Caterpillars of Eastern North America: A Guide to Identification and Natural History (Princeton Field Guides (62))
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Number of reviews: 1
53. Tracks & Sign of Insects and Other Invertebrates: A Guide to North American Species
Sentiment score: 1
Number of reviews: 1
Stackpole Books
54. American Beetles, Volume II: Polyphaga: Scarabaeoidea through Curculionoidea
Sentiment score: 1
Number of reviews: 1
Used Book in Good Condition
55. American Beetles, Volume I: Archostemata, Myxophaga, Adephaga, Polyphaga: Staphyliniformia
Sentiment score: 1
Number of reviews: 1
Used Book in Good Condition
56. The Modern Kama Sutra: The Ultimate Guide to the Secrets of Erotic Pleasure
Sentiment score: 0
Number of reviews: 1
57. Man Eating Bugs: The Art and Science of Eating Insects
Sentiment score: 0
Number of reviews: 1
Used Book in Good Condition
58. Thug Kitchen: The Official Cookbook: Eat Like You Give a F*ck (Thug Kitchen Cookbooks)
Sentiment score: 0
Number of reviews: 1
This refurbished product is tested and certified to look and work like new. The refurbishing process includes functionality testing, basic cleaning, inspection, and repackaging. The product ships with all relevant accessories, and may arrive in a generic box
59. Illustrated Revision of the Cerambycidae of North America: Parandrinae, Spondylidinae, Aseminae Prioninae
Sentiment score: 0
Number of reviews: 1
60. [Upgraded] Large Gap Door Draft Stopper, 3-2/5"W Widened Door Sweep for Interior and Exterior Doors - Guard Against Drafts, Dust, Noise and Unwanted Animals (3-2/5"W x 39"L, Black)
Sentiment score: 0
Number of reviews: 1
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For beetles north of Mexico, I recommend the old favourite, Peterson Field Guides: Beetles of North America. People who complain that the book should have photos instead line drawings don't know what they're talking about. Line drawings are superior for identification because diagnostic traits are more visible. The purpose of a field guide of identification, not to a pretty coffee book (if you want a pretty coffee book, The Book of Beetles is my favorite, and I have it in my living room at the moment).
For insects in general north of Mexico, I recommend the counterpart from the same series.
If you insist on photos, I recommend the National Wildlife Federation Field Guide to Insects and Spiders & Related Species of North America (which, by the way, was written by a member of BugGuide.net). Since it has photos, I'd recommend it for beginners. Once they feel more comfortable with insect taxonomy, they should add the Peterson Field Guides to their collection. Avoid the popular Audubon series because it values pretty photos over practicality.
The Peterson Field Guides are great because they provide keys, diagnostic traits, similar families, collecting methods, and a plethora of amazingly detailed line drawings (and color slides). They also have great introductory material. The taxonomy is outdated, but it's not a big issue when you have online guides, like BugGuide.net, that keep their taxonomy current. The more important takeaway is that these guides will quickly teach you insect taxonomy, and you quickly develop a big-picture sense--that is, the diversity--and a granular sense--that is, the subtle difference between similar clades.
As for "state by state" guides, I have the California Natural History Guides: Field Guide to Beetles of California. There aren't line drawings like those in the Peterson Field Guides, but you do have some photographic slides in the middle section. For this, I would only recommend the book for those with enough familiarity with beetles.
Like you said, "the scope of insects is way too huge for a simple, small field guide." Many reviewers don't understand this, and complain about the lack of specificity. To satisfy their specificity, you'd probably need a guide at the city or county level (without exceeding a million pages, and assuming an entomologist is willing to take on that task LOL). Insects are so grossly misunderstood by most people (that is, most people compare the taxonomic scope of insects with that of let's say, mammals, which is like comparing travel guides for the Vatican with that of Russia--or the United States), you are better off ignoring most laymen reviews if your goal is to actually learn.
He's two. It happens. If I could make a recommendation, though, there is an absolutely amazing book, I'm Trying to Love Spiders, by Bethany Barton. You and he might enjoy reading it together. My students love it! (I teach summer school classes about bugs and spiders to middle school and elementary school students. The older kids are a bit beyond that book, but the little guys love it! They like patting the page whenever "Squish it!" appears.)
Yeah, Googling is hard without knowing some of the common families and such. There are nearly 50 thousand spiders in the world, and that's a lot to sift through!
Bugguide has some helpful pages, including this one that goes over some of the different eye arrangements you see in North American spider families.
If you're at all interested, there's a very nice new book full of vivid drawings of spiders, would probably be nice to flip through with the kiddies.
Spiders are a fun thing to get into!
I'm sure someone else will know, but in the meantime, I'll give an enthusiastic recommendation (for any budding entomologists who may be on this subreddit) of Tracks & Signs of Insects and Other Invertebrates. Best field guide I've bought in a long while.
I think these are lepidopteran eggs, but I'm not 100% sure. If I had that book on me, I'd check!
An Inordinate Fondness for Beetles is a great book about beetles, for iding them i like the peterson guides.
If you're interested in fostering a moth obsession, I recommend this book to help set the stage!
3 is definitely a zebra swallowtail (E. protesilaus)
5 is a morpho of some type, but not sure which.
I could probably figure them all out if I had my field guides with me. Not sure about texts to recommend but I knew someone with this who recommended it.
I believe it is a Woolly Gray moth Lycia ypsilon. The coloration appears to be variable, but unlike the images on Bugguide the picture in Caterpillars of Eastern North America matches yours quite well.
While thick, one book you'll probably want to look into is Evolution of the Insects by Grimaldi and Engel. It's required reading in some taxonomy courses. As much as I like physical print for reference books, the digital $17 version looks awfully tempting, and you wouldn't be out too much.
You would like thug kitchen cookbook for sheezie
Well, I'd say that's a Very Hungry Caterpillar.
This is correct I just read about it in this really cool book: Adventures Among Ants.
Interesting, and illustrated.
here ya go
It could still be a painted lady. Those are the butterflies that generally come with these kits: http://www.amazon.com/Insect-Lore-Live-Butterfly-Garden/dp/B00000ISC5
So they can occasionally be found released into the wild.
Yea... that's why I used the term "displace". Even really small ants like monomorium minimum displace other large insects chemically. They don't hunt the bugs that tend to flee their presence, it's that they present a hazard like a huge pack of small dogs.
When I kept ants I had bizarre first hand experience with chemical displacement. I had a few nests...two were formica pallidefulva and monomorium minimum. By volume the MMs were about 1% the size of the FPs.
So one day I woke up and checked in on my ants and the FP were dying. They were huddled in small groups...some were dead others were sluggish or have "seizures" (all shaky wobbly).
And I noticed the MMs were all over in their nest. The MMs had found a way out of the setup and into the FPs. There was no direct violence or attacks happening...and the MMs weren't eating them. The MMs just wanted the space and their mere presence began to kill the FPs. It was quite a sight...
An awesome book on insect chemical defenses and also on setting up easy experiments to study insects in your yard is..."For the Love of Insects" I learned so much from that book.