While it may not be widely known outside of professional circles, the ideas and techniques that have been developed in North America for the conservation of that continents’ wildlife are so markedly different from how it has long been practiced in Europe, as well as in the rest of the world, that it has become known among professionals in the field as The North American Model of Wildlife Conservation.
Contrary to what may be erroneously inferred from all the entomologically incorrect Halloween displays being more and more commonly seen these days, spiders do not possess internal calcified skeletons.
After months of waiting, sometimes even patiently, Jerry Powell and Paul Opler‘s Moths of Western North America, a book I have long anticipated has finally arrived and is now safely resting upon my desk.