Bugs of Ontario

Steve Pitt is a Toronto-based freelance writer and an award-winning journalist. He has written many young adult and children's books, including Day of the Flying Fox: The True Story of World War II Pilot Charley Fox.

John Acorn is already familiar to millions of nature lovers as the
quirky deadpan host of the Discovery Channel television program The
Nature Nut. If you enjoy Acorn’s informative but irreverent style on
TV, you are sure to enjoy this book, which features some of the most
fascinating creepy critters in Ontario. Like all of the many outstanding
Lone Pine field guides, this volume is at home both on a coffee table
and in a nature hiker’s hip pocket. More than 100 gorgeous full-colour
illustrations by nature artist Ian Sheldon draw the readers’ eyes from
page to page. Acorn’s wry commentary entertains as well as informs.

The content is brilliantly arranged to help readers quickly identify
bugs. The back cover shows the basic bug varieties, divided into 12
categories: butterflies; moths; beetles; wasps (including ants, bees,
and sawflies); two-winged flies; lacewings and their relatives; sucking
bugs; grigs and their relatives; damselflies and dragonflies; aquatic
larvae; aquatic adults; and non-insect arthropods. Each category is
assigned a colour code, and the codes are matched with page numbers for
a corresponding chapter. Thus, if readers encounter a weird but
wonderful bug, all they have to do is look for the closest match on the
back cover, and then they know exactly where to turn in the book by
flipping either to the colour indicated or to the page number.

If you have always longed to be able to distinguish your Cow Killer
from your Stump Stabber, or your Clouded Sulphur from your Snowberry
Clearwing, this book is your ticket.