Description
Flower Bugs book
Author: Angella Moorehouse
Price: $18 (Suggested Retail $35)
Paperback: 360 pages
Publisher: Pollination Press, October 31, 2023
Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 1.8 inches
ISBN-10 : 0991356365
ISBN-13 : 978-0991356362
Notes:
A first-of-its-kind guide that showcases an incredibly diverse group of insects—the true bugs (Heteroptera)—and their connection with native plants. While most true bugs have a varied diet of plant and animal matter, many spend much of their lives on flowers and flowering plants. In addition, these lesser known, misunderstood, and often maligned insects provide essential ecological services such as pest control and pollination. Highlighting their importance, this ground-breaking field guide provides a useful resource for citizen scientists and field biologists to study, identify, and appreciate true bugs in the Midwest. This flower bug guide hundreds of photographs from dozens of families, tips on when and how to find these bugs, and their associated native flowering plants and habitats.
About the author – Angella Moorehouse:
Angella’s educational training is in avian and plant ecology. She holds a master’s degree from Western Illinois University in Macomb, Illinois. She was mentored in the field by various entomology experts starting with butterflies in the late 1990s. This passion later expanded to include other groups of insects with a focus on pollinators. For the past 27 years she has worked for the Illinois Department of Natural Resources as a field representative for the Illinois Nature Preserves Commission in west-central Illinois where she does conservation easements to protect high quality natural areas and assists in the management along with flora and fauna monitoring of these sites. She has been conducting photography surveys of flower visiting insects on 30 protected natural areas in west-central Illinois since 2018. Angella and her husband Dan are avid photographers and use their photographs to document natural diversity and share their passion for nature through education. Angella has published several photo field guides on wasps, bees, flies, and moths with the Field Museum in Chicago as part of the Rapid Field Guide program. “Flower Bugs” is her first book publication and is intended to be a field guide for identification of flower visiting true bugs in the Midwest.
