Insect Collection and Identification: Techniques for the Field and Laboratory, Second Edition, is the definitive text on all aspects required for collecting and properly preparing specimens for identification. This book provides detailed taxonomic keys to insects and related arthropods, giving recent classification changes to various insect taxa, along with updated preservation materials and techniques for molecular and genomic studies. It includes methods of rearing, storing and shipping specimens. New sections provide suggestions on how insects and other arthropods can be used within, and outside, the formal classroom and examine currently accepted procedures for collecting insects at crime scenes. 355 p.

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• Timothy J. Gibb. Department of Entomology, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN (USA).
• Christian Oseto. Department of Entomology, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN (USA)
  
   
• Publication date (electronic format): 2019-09.