A comprehensive full-color guide to the remarkably diverse and beautiful beetles of the United States and Canada east of the Mississippi River. It is the first color-illustrated guide to cover 1,406 species in all 115 families that occur in the region - and the first new in-dept…
Famed entomologist and Harvard alum Thomas Eisner (AB’51, OEB Ph.D.’56) once said, “Insects are the most versatile of evolutionary innovators. Pick an insect at random, and chances are there is something about the way it feeds or defends itself, or reproduces, that is unique”. T…
"Beginning in the late 1980s, a series of improbable bark beetle outbreaks unsettled iconic forests and communities across western North America. An insect the size of a rice kernel eventually killed more than 30 billion pine and spruce trees from Alaska to New Mexico. Often app…