| A practical guide for
forest owners and managers, entomologists, and anyone curious about
the natural world.
Aided by this field guide,
anyone familiar with Idaho trees can seek out and identify any of
Idaho's more than 100 species of bark beetles and their close relatives.
Review
by Alan A. Berryman
Book Highlights:
- This first field guide
to the bark beetles of Idaho includes many recent records of species
found there by the authors.
- More than 100 black
and white photographs and illustrations depict beetle galleries
and identifying anatomical features of the beetles themselves.
- A host tree index
lists Idaho trees and shrubs and the bark beetles that infest
them.
- Detailed information
on each species includes distribution by county, host trees, gallery
pattern, and a description of the adult beetle.
- Simplified keys make
primary use of host trees and gallery patterns to identify beetles
to genus and species.
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