Following upon their publication of José R. Castelló’s 2016 “Bovids of the World” and 2018 “Canids of the World,” Princeton University Press has now let the cat out of the bag with their publication of his most recent taxonomic family-level field guide “Felids and Hyenas of the World: Wildcats, Panthers, Lynx, Pumas, Ocelots, Caracals, and Relatives.”
As the temperatures turn cooler here in the northern hemisphere, I’ve begun to receive an increased number of communications regarding the identities of spiders that were recently noticed in someone’s house. They’ve likely always been there, of course – spiders that commonly live out-of-doors don’t generally seasonally migrate indoors as autumn approaches, it’s just that […]
Having gone quiet in 2014 following the publication of James P. Smith Jr.’s “Field Guide to Grasses of California,” I was delighted to learn that a new volume will be added to the California Natural History Guide series, its 111th, this October: the “Field Guide to California Insects,” Second Edition by Kip Will, Joyce Gross, Daniel Rubinoff, and Jerry A. Powell.
Including straight-forward, easily accessible information and identifying images of forty-six species of crabs, from the widely-known (and much coveted among seafood fanciers) Dungeness Crab, Cancer magister, to the little-known (at least to me) Pubescent Porcelain Crab, Pachycheles pubescens, as well as a concise introductory section explaining crab ecology and life history, this new field guide will easily prove itself essential to any well-stocked field bag for all Pacific Northwest coast explorations.