When it comes to the stuff of which nightmares are commonly made, it’s difficult to find a more commonly employed foundation material than the creatures contained in the Phylum Arthropoda, particularly those included in the Classes Insecta and Arachnida…
Douglas Carlson’s biography is sufficiently expansive in scope to encompass the many facets of Peterson without being unwieldy in length or needlessly excessive in detail.
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.
As I had made reference in a previous post to my recent reading of a book that should easily make anyone’s short list of top natural history books for 2009, Jeremy Mynott’s Birdscapes: Birds in Our Imagination and Experience, I thought interested readers might like to know that an ongoing trivia contest pertaning to the […]