The 5 Best Kaufman insect Guides (2023 reviews)

The arthur v evans kaufman insect guide is long-lasting, rigid and fits well with your regular usage like a dream. If you are interested in insects and spiders you will love this field guide. This book is thick & packed full of information, fabulous color pictures(1600 of them), diagrams and so many different insect species, including spiders. It's easy to use and simple to understand. The photos are nice, and the annotations pointing out the characteristic field markings to distinguish similar species are very helpful.

This guide will have a sufficient amount of genera and species represented to help with identification. Whether a junior entomologist or pest management professional this is a book you will pck up for many time. It is perfect for a budding bug enthusiast.

Why We Like This:

Beautiful photography and plenty of it
Excellent holiday gift to stimulate a person's interest in insects
Refreshing and colorful new look for a field guide
Clear and easy to navigate through this book

Best For Identification: Jim P Brock Kaufman insect Guide

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If you want nothing but the best reliable guide, then jim p brock kaufman insect guide is the one you should definitely consider, as it manages to bring a lot to the table. This is a must have for any butterfly enthusiast. This book has excellect illustrations and contains good descriptions and range maps. It is easy to understand, with range maps next to the pictures and descriptions. On each species, it has a watermark showing the expected size, and includes range maps on the same page as well, which helps to easily eliminate the unlikely candidates.

The range of illustrations is excellent and the depiction of the butterflies as they are seen in nature (rather than as pinned and spread museum specimens) is very helpful and appropriate. It is easy to carry in a vest pocket and useful in identification. It is easy to use for field identification for non-entomologists.

Why We Like This:

The ultimate book for easy identification for beginners
Great book, very informative, detailed information
Excellent field guide and butterfly identification tool

Best For kids: Eric R Eaton Kaufman insect Guide

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The eric r eaton kaufman insect guide is capable of outshining several other guide featured in this list in overall features for the price point. This insect field guide is amazing. It has just enough of everything so that the book is affordable and light enough to really be a FIELD guide. It's green and it shimmers like gold, not metallic, but like a jewel. It is great for your nature library. This begins with an 'overview' paragraph, and every label from the picture page appears in boldface. It has color-coded pages for the sections, and section sub-headings like "If it's really small or really weird looking, try here.

This is a great adjunct to the peterson field guide to the insects, a serious bug nut should have them both, the peterson for the text and kaufman for the many excellent photos. The reproductions are good, the content accurate, and the physicality of the book itself is nice to hold and flip through.

Why We Like This:

Compact yet contains a ton of information
Very complete book for the curious about insects
Great for id, low on text
Great field guide of insects and other crawlers

Best For tricky ids: Kenn Kaufman insect Guide

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The kenn kaufman kaufman insect guide is suitable and reliable and fits well with your daily usage. If birding is more to you than simply pinning a name to a bird, this is the book you'll turn to. This book is a great compliment to any field guide and a "must have" for birders intent on developing their skills and knowledge. It provides a nice overview and several examples of the truly frustrating event of hybrid gulls plus giving a good overview of the herring gull complex. Much of the material is specific and detailed yet Kaufman manages to describe the general principles for understanding the appearance, behavior and vocalization of birds.

This book is softcover, and field guide size, not bulky. It is great for referencing because of its nice index page. This will be one of the books in your Birding library that you won't loan to ANYBODY.

Why We Like This:

Huge book with great info and essays, extremely fun to read
Compact, light, powerful telezoom and sharp focus that takes amazing bird pictures from distance
Good investment for long term

Best little Book: Kenn Kaufman Field Guide

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Next on the list, we've got yet another guide that manages to win our hearts. It's the kenn kaufman field guide and it's widely considered as guide that has the most suitable features. You'll want a more in-depth book for your main area of interest, but this book is great for a beginner naturalist. The Kaufman's give you just enough to launch you on your own discovery about ANY aspect of nature in New England. It covers everything from stars to frogs to birds to plants. It is a phenomenal book with an outstanding design.

It’s descriptive, has good photos and is easy to use. It also would be a perfect gift for someone who just bought a camp or cottage or will be camping, hiking, fishing or heading to a summer camp. This is a wonderful guide for nature lovers who wish to learn more about the plants and animals in their surroundings.

Why We Like This:

Very complete and easy to use
Excellent book for anyone who enjoys nature in new england
Easy to use, great field guide
Great book to keep in the car for those quick walks