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Insects: A Guide to Familiar American Insects

by Herbert S. Zim, Clarence Cottam · 1951

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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 eatHow to find and observe them.

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

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North AmericaNorth AmericaMore like thisLess of thisUSAUSAMore like thisLess of this
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childrens
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short · 160 pages

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