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California Insects

California Insects Soft cover - 1979 - 1st Edition

by Powell, Jerry A.; Hogue, Charles L

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University of California Press, 1979. Soft cover. Very Good. College bookstore stamps FFEP and bottom page edges. Minimal wear, slightly bent corners, yellowed page edges. Illustrated, 388 pages. California Natural History Guides, 44. Later printing. ISBN 0520037820
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  • Title California Insects
  • Author Powell, Jerry A.; Hogue, Charles L
  • Binding Soft cover
  • Edition number 1st
  • Edition 1
  • Condition Used - Very Good
  • Pages 400
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher University of California Press, Berkeley
  • Date 1979
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Glossary, Illustrated, Index, Maps
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 11407
  • ISBN 9780520037823 / 0520037820
  • Weight 0.87 lbs (0.39 kg)
  • Dimensions 7.94 x 4.75 x 0.96 in (20.17 x 12.07 x 2.44 cm)
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: Western U.S.
    • Geographic Orientation: California
  • Library of Congress subjects Insects - California
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 78062876
  • Dewey Decimal Code 595.709

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First line

Insects occur everywhere except in the polar regions and in the oceans.

From the rear cover

This volume is the first attempt in more than half a century to provide a field guide for beginning students and the nonspecialist reader. It selects about 600 of the most characteristic kinds of insects to represent the huge variety known.

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About the author

Jerry A. Powell is Professor of the Graduate School and Director of The Essig Museum of Entomology at the University of California, Berkeley. He has written extensively on Lepidoptera and devotes about 75 days each year to field research.
Charles L. Hogue was Senior Curator at the Natural History Museum of Los Angles County. He wrote numerous popular and technical papers, mainly on Diptera, as well as several general books on insects. He died in 1992.