Hi all, I'm teaching Entomology 101 and would like suggestions for a textbook. I'm looking at Gullen and Cranston's The Insects an Outline of Entomology, Daly and Doyen's Insect Biology and Diversity. Both seem good, but one is stronger in Insect Biology and the other covers things well enough, but has keys for identification. I'm also wondering about costs for undergraduates. I myself trained using Borrer and DeLong, but is $300.00 for a book for students who may never take another entomology course?
Any input is welcome, thanks!
Davies R.G., Outlines of Entomology, Chapman & Hall, Seventh Edition. Is it a textbook too resumptive and incomplete for your purposes? Probably it is so. Regards,
Rinaldo Nicoli
We used Gullen and Cranston's The Insects an Outline of Entomology at the entomology course in Uppsala (Sweden) back in the late 90ties. I thought it was very good covering the most of the general concepts in entomology. For the identification excercises we used separate keys. Cheers Thomas Persson Vinnersten
Dear Curtis,
I think Gullen and Cranston's The Insects an Outline of Entomology is adequate for BSc training. However, for MSc students some additional parts of Daly and Doyen’s Introduction to insect biology and diversity as well as Gillot’s Entomology are necessary. There is a relatively simple book of van Emden, Handbook of agricultural entomology but I do not think it to be sufficient for my crop protection students.
For an undergraduate student especially for the lower levels Romoser and Stoffolano, Jr The Science of Entomology could help in some aspects of description classification, identification of insects. Davies Outline of Entomology could also useful
Try to visit the website of Viçosa Federal University (Minas Gerais, Brazil). The basic entomology is named BAN 160 (http://ead.insecta.ufv.br/course/view.php?id=4). The didatic material is in Portuguese and is constructed from several sources but Gullan & Cranston is the principal recommended reference. I have studied there and I have been monitor in discipline.
Another good text is: The Insects by R. F. Chapman (Fifth Edition), Edited by S. J. Simpson and A. E. Douglas. Cambridge University Press.
IMMs Text Book of Entomology is better for taxonomy/ classification point of view.
by Richards and Davies
Insects of Australia; Instead of its title, it has a nice world overview!
In University of Havana we used Daly et al. 1998 "An introduction to insect biology and diversity"combined with Borror and Delong's "Introduction to ithe study of insects"
If you are going to Identify Orders and some of the most relevant families, use Borror and Delong, but instead of the 7th edition, go with the 6th (Keys work well and price will be less than $20) (the keys in Daly and Doyen are NOT that good!)
For Biology and basic behavior, ecology etc. Borror and Delong are OK, but not that good anymore. Go with Daly and Doyen's (you can use the 2nd Edition, by Daly, Doyen and Purcell; the price should be around $20 too) and complement with Gullan and Cranston (it is cheaper, but you can go with the forth edition which you can find for less than $10).
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