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| Spiders of the North Woods (North Woods Naturalist Series) | 
 enlarge | Author: Larry Weber
Publisher: Kollath-Stensaas Publishing
Category: Book
List Price: $18.95
Buy New: $12.83
You Save: $6.12 (32%)
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Avg. Customer Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 338763
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 216
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.5
Dimensions (in): 8.2 x 4.5 x 0.4
ISBN: 0967379342
Dewey Decimal Number: 595
EAN: 9780967379340
ASIN: 0967379342
Publication Date: December 2, 2002
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Condition: Brand New. Delivery is usually 5 - 8 working days from order, International is by Royal Mail Airmail
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Product Description
Part of the popular North Woods Naturalist Series, this field guide contains detailed information with an innovative format that makes field identification a snap! The guide will help you know what to look for and when, and it was developed exclusively for the regions surrounding the North Woods of the United States and Canada.
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| Customer Reviews:
 great book for amateur naturalists February 19, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
The approach, information, and design of this book make it much more user-friendly than older guides. This book is a pleasure to read, and it has everything you need to identify and learn about the spiders of the area covered.
 a good starter field guide to spiders November 9, 2006
8 out of 8 found this review helpful
As of this time, there aren't many reasonably priced field guides to spiders available. Although this book is small and limited in the number of species described, it's a good starter field guide for those who would like to learn some of the basics for identifying common spiders of the northeastern part of North America. Weber has done a good job of selecting spiders that are most likely to be encountered in fields, gardens, forests and around buildings. The guide is divided into sections for each Family, with line drawings of typical identifying features, along with brief descriptions of appearance, habitat, web type, hunting technique employed by the spider, etc.. Within each of these sections, are several examples of genera in the family, each illustrated with one or more photographs and accompanying notes to assist in identification. Most of the photographs are quite clear, and marked with a small arrow pointing to the most recognizable feature for that spider. A simple graphic "size bar" illustrates the typical size of males and females of each of the spiders contained in the guide. In addition to the identification sections, the book also contains good introductory information on the anatomy and natural history of spiders. There's also a small chapter on observing spiders - where to find them, spider behaviour, etc.. All in all, it's a good book considering the limitations of its size. For anyone who wants to get started learning about spiders, it's a valuable little field guide and will probably teach you enough of the basics of identification to at least have a reasonably good idea which Family a spider belongs to, and perhaps even identify some to species.
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