Author: John Bernhard SmithPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Lepidoptera
Languages : en
Pages : 66
Book Description
Contributions Toward a Monograph of the Lepidopterous Family Noctuidae of Boreal North America
Author: John Bernhard SmithPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Lepidoptera
Languages : en
Pages : 66
Book Description
Contributions Toward a Monograph of the Lepidopterous Family Noctuidæ of Boreal North America
Author: John Bernhard SmithPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Apatela
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
Contributions Toward a Monograph of the Noctuidae of North America: Revision of the Deltoid moths; Revision of the species of Acronycta (Ochsenheimer) and of certain allied genera; Revision of the genus Hydroecia; Revision of the species of Acontia; Revision of the genus Xylina Ochs; A revision of the moths referred to the genus Leucania, with descriptions of new species
Author: John Bernhard SmithPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Noctuidae
Languages : en
Pages : 656
Book Description
Contributions Toward a Monograph of the Noctuidae ...
Author: John Bernhard SmithPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Noctuidae
Languages : en
Pages : 66
Book Description
Contributions Toward a Monograph of the Insects of the Lepidopterous Family Noctuidae of Boreal North America
Author: John Bernhard SmithPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Lepidoptera
Languages : en
Pages : 172
Book Description
Moths, Myths, and Mosquitoes
Author: Marc EpsteinPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190215275
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 361
Book Description
On September 26, 1924, the ground collapsed beneath a truck in a back alley in Washington, D.C., revealing a mysterious underground labyrinth. In spite of wild speculations, the tunnel was not the work of German spies, but rather an aging, eccentric Smithsonian scientist named Harrison Gray Dyar, Jr. While Dyar's covert tunneling habits may seem far-fetched, they were merely one of many oddities in Dyar's unbelievable life. For the first time, insect biosystematist Marc E. Epstein presents a complete account of Dyar's life story. Dyar, one of the most influential biologists of the twentieth century, focused his entomological career on building natural classifications of various groups of insects. His revolutionary approach to taxonomy, which examined both larval and adult stages of insects, brought about major changes in the scientific community's understanding of natural relationships and insect systematics. He was also the father of what came to be known as Dyar's Law, a pragmatic method to standardize information on insect larval stages as they grow. Over the course of his illustrious career at the U.S. National Museum, Smithsonian Institution from 1897-1929, Dyar named over 3,000 species, established the "List of North American Lepidoptera," an unrivaled catalog of moths and butterflies, and built one of the nation's premier lepidoptera and mosquito collections. However, Dyar's scientific accomplishments are a mere component of this remarkable biography. Epstein offers an account of Dyar's complicated personal life, from his feuds with fellow entomologists to the scandalous revelation that he was married to two wives at the same time. Epstein also chronicles Dyar's exploration of the Baha'i faith, his extensive travels, his innumerable works of unpublished fiction, and the loss of his wealth from bad investments. Comprehensive and engaging, Moths, Myths, and Mosquitoes will delight entomologists and historians alike, as well as anyone interested in exploring the zany life of one of America's virtually unknown scientific geniuses.
The External Morphology and Postembryology of Noctuid Larvae
Author: Lewis Bradford RipleyPublisher:
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Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
Catalogue of Scientific Papers
Author: Royal Society (Great Britain)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Learned institutions and societies
Languages : en
Pages : 1092
Book Description
Catalogue of Scientific Papers (1800-1900): ser. 4 , 1884-1900
Author: Royal Society (Great Britain)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Learned institutions and societies
Languages : en
Pages : 1088
Book Description
American Insects
Author: Ross H. Arnett, Jr.Publisher: CRC Press
ISBN: 1482273896
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 1024
Book Description
Offering a complete accounting of the insects of North America, this handbook is an up-dated edition of the first handbook ever compiled in the history of American entomology.By using American Insects, A Handbook of the Insects of America North of Mexico, Second Edition, readers can quickly determine the taxonomic position of any species, genus, or
