“If a picture is a thousand words, this book is easily a
treasure-trove of information. Dr. Curry has provided the dragonfly watcher
with photographs that are as utilitarian as they are beautiful to accompany his
simply presented and informative text. The result is a practical and engaging
field guide to the Indiana dragonflies. This field guide will be cherished by
anyone who appreciates and takes wonder at the glancing shimmer of dragonfly
wings on a summer’s day.”
-Robert D. Waltz. Ph.D., Indiana State
Entomologist
“This history-making book is the first regional field guide
to the dragonflies of mid-continental North America. It will be useful not only
in Indiana, but throughout the region. It has over 250 color photographs,
including one or more images of all of the 97 species of dragonflies known from
Indiana, plus numerous line drawings. The text includes useful sections on key
identification features, dragonfly anatomy, life history, habitats, behavior,
flight seasons, the history of dragonfly study in Indiana, and the conservation
value of dragonflies. This field guide will be useful not only to neophyte
bug-watchers, but to aquatic biologists, naturalists, and others, including
birders who wish to expand the range of their wildlife-watching expertise.
Professor Curry has traveled nearly 40,000 miles within Indiana over the last
decade gathering information for this book. Perhaps only other authors of field
guides will truly appreciate that only a labor of love could have generated the
huge effort necessary to take the photographs, create the range maps, and
gather all the other data that Dr. Curry has so ably assembled in these pages.”
-Sidney W. Dunkle, Author of “Dragonflies
through Binoculars, a Field Guide to Dragonflies of North America.”