Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!littlei!reed!todd
From: todd@reed.UUCP (Todd Ellner)
Newsgroups: sci.bio
Subject: Re: Big Bug Book?
Keywords: Everything there is to know about insects
Message-ID: <10990@reed.UUCP>
Date: 11 Nov 88 09:42:14 GMT
References: <32051@oliveb.olivetti.com>
Reply-To: todd@reed.UUCP (Todd Ellner)
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Organization: Reed College, Portland OR
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In article <32051@oliveb.olivetti.com> gnome@oliven.olivetti.com (Gary) writes:
>I'm looking for a comprehensive book covering all
>(known) insects.  I just moved to the country and
>I'm finding things that I can't identify.

There are books on insects aplenty.  Go to your local university and ask the 
nice entomologist for help, but _ALL KNOWN_ insects?!?  There are over a
million cataloged species of insects, 250,000 of beetles alone.  In fact, they
compromise 3/4 of all known animal species period.  Sorry I sound this way.
There's an entomology mid-term coming up soon.
-- 
Todd Ellner ...tektronix!reed!todd    todd@reed.UUCP (or BITNET)
Q: "What has the study of biology taught you about God Dr. Haldane?"
A: "I'm not sure, but He seems to have an inordinate fondness for beetles."
Reed College probably doesn't want my opinions any more than you do.