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Title: Spiders and Their Kin (Golden Guide) by Herbert Walter Levi, Lorna Rose Levi, Herbert Spencer Zim, Nicholas ( Illustrator) Strekalovsky, George S. Fichter ISBN: 0-307-24021-5 Publisher: Golden Books Adult Publishing Pub. Date: January, 1990 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $6.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.86 (7 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: A good little field guide
Comment: Upon first reading, it is unfortunate that "Spiders and Their Kin" shows but a select few species from among the Arachnid pantheon, but it has been a great read and a great reference over the ten-plus years since I first purchased an earlier edition.
Used as a sole reference, the book is lacking in many crucial details, but there are more specialized books available to those who find that the information within these pages is less than desired.
True, it will not go in-depth with regard to each individual species, and may not show one in particular, but it's a handier starting point for arachnid identification than its larger brethren and, that, I think, is the purpose for which it is intended to be used.
The bottom line: if you know little to nothing about arachnids at this time, or you just need a field guide to get you started on making identifications, go ahead and buy Levi's little gem. If you feel like you need to learn all that can be learned about an individual species of spider or need more specialized/more advanced field guides, then this is probably not the book for you.
Rating: 4
Summary: Good Starter book
Comment: I think this is a good starter book for identfying spiders that are more common. There are a couple of pages on webs that I found interesting. In the front it gives a great visual on how the Arthropod group is broken out and how different spider types break out within that - all helps when trying to do the id. There are so many different amazing spiders - this can only scrath the surface but is a really good place to start. I just like taking pictures and having a general idea of what I'm looking at so for me it works...I will be checking out other books too though like "How to Know Spiders" if there is one in that "How to Know" series.
Rating: 2
Summary: this is a little kids book
Comment: I bought this book because I was expecting to ID the brown recluse which has several variations. This book had one poorly drawn picture and 1 sentence about the Brown Recluse. I was disappointed to say the least. This is one of those little field guides for kids.
This would be a good field guide for someone about 8 years old.
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Title: Insects : A Golden Guide from St. Martin's Press by Clarence Cottam, Herbert S. Zim ISBN: 1582381291 Publisher: St. Martin's Press Pub. Date: 14 April, 2001 List Price(USD): $6.95 |
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Title: Reptiles and Amphibians : A Golden Guide from St. Martin's Press by Hobart M. Smith, Herbert S. Zim, James Gordon Irving ISBN: 1582381313 Publisher: St. Martin's Press Pub. Date: 14 April, 2001 List Price(USD): $6.95 |
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Title: Butterflies and Moths : A Golden Guide from St. Martin's Press by Robert T. Mitchell, Herbert S. Zim, Andre Durenceau ISBN: 1582381364 Publisher: St. Martin's Press Pub. Date: 14 April, 2001 List Price(USD): $6.95 |
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Title: Biology of Spiders by Rainer F. Foelix ISBN: 0195095944 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: August, 1996 List Price(USD): $40.00 |
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Title: Pond Life : A Golden Guide from St. Martin's Press, Revised and Updated by George K. Reid, Sally D. Kaicher, Tom Dolan ISBN: 1582381305 Publisher: St. Martin's Press Pub. Date: 14 April, 2001 List Price(USD): $6.95 |
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