A Charley Eiseman appreciation post Charley Eiseman is the…

Monday, September 15th, 2014

A Charley Eiseman appreciation post

Charley Eiseman is the principal author of Tracks and Signs of Insects and Other Invertebrates. If you’ve been following my blog long enough you already know what an awesome book it is. But maybe you don’t know what an awesome person Charley is.

I mentioned earlier today that I’d found an object in the salt marsh yesterday that I thought might be a spider egg sac, and that I was planning to upload a photo of it to bugguide.net to see if someone (which usually means Charley, for an image like that) could help identify it.

I uploaded the image at 2:18 p.m.

Charley’s comment with a tentative ID was posted at 2:20 p.m.

This is not the first time this has happened.

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Northern Naturalists – Invertebrate Tracking Field Guide

Wednesday, July 2nd, 2014

Northern Naturalists – Invertebrate Tracking Field Guide:

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I’ve said it before, I’ll say it again: BUY THIS BOOK.

If you’ve ever seen a bump on a leaf, or found a weird cocoon, or a bunch of tiny eggs, and wanted to know what creature made them, this book is for you.

This is absolutely true. I’m a field-guide fan from way back. I own way too many field guides.

This is literally my favorite field guide ever. It is beautifully illustrated with hundreds of photographs. The text is fascinating.

It’s like having a personal Sherlock Holmes that you can ask questions of and receive precise, authoritative answers about the most obscure clues. Um, if Sherlock Holmes had devoted his life to solving insect mysteries instead of human ones.

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