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Learning About Living With Insects of the Southwest: How to Identify Helpful, Harmful and Venomous Insects
Learning About Living With Insects of the Southwest How to Identify Helpful Harmful and Venomous Insects Author:Floyd G. Werner, Carl Olson Insects of the Southwest describes over 120 of the most common bugs and "creepy crawlies" you're likely to share your house or yard with from day to day. Provides interesting and important facts and historical information on the many fascinating insects and arthropods that inhabit the Southwestthe region ranging from Southern California t... more »hrough Arizona to Central Texas, and north into Utah, Colorado and Nevada. Introduces both adults and children to the wonders of observationwhile never needing to go more than a few yards from home. Easy-to-read and understand. Drawings and text help you learn about and identify these tiny creatures and know the difference between some of the fearsome-looking-but-harmless bugs and those that are venomous. Plus, household "pets and pests" and which bugs are which. Learn about the Africanized "killer" bee spiders and the real pests they eat, the many varieties of cockroaches, crop pests and "flashy bugs" found in the desert and mountains. Floyd Werner, Ph.D. and Carl Olson, M.S., entomologists at the University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, share their affection for the diversity and necessity of all creatures. They'll arm us with a fuller knowledge to help us appreciate and respect the role insects play as the recyclers in nature and even dispell some of the fears and misconceptions many of us have about the earth's most numerous inhabitants.« less