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The continuing demand for general references and aids to identification of Ephemeroptera has undoubtedly prompted the recent reprinting of The Mayflies. . . of Illinois. A two-page preface by George F. Edmunds, Jr. dealing with taxonomic and nomenclatural changes since the original 1953 publication has been added and will serve as an adequate aid to those unfamiliar with changing concepts in mayfly systematics. The reprinting is of high quality with the large number of figures having been excellently reproduced in this hard-bound edition

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The Mayflies, or Ephemeroptera, of Illinois. B. D. Burks, 1975 reprint of Bulletin of the Illinois Natural History Survey, Vol. 26, 1953. Entomological Reprint Specialists, Los Angeles, California, viii + 216 p., 395 figs. $15.00.

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The Great Lakes Entomologist Volume 9 Number 4 - Winter 1976 Number 4 - Winter 1976 Article 14 December 1976 The Mayflies, or Ephemeroptera, of Illinois. B. D. Burks, 1975 reprint of Bulletin of the Illinois Natural History Survey, Vol. 26, 1953. Entomological Reprint Specialists, Los Angeles, California, viii + 216 p., 395 figs. $15.00. W. P. McCafferty Purdue University Follow this and additional works at: https://scholar.valpo.edu/tgle  Part of the Entomology Commons Recommended Citation McCafferty, W. P. 1976. "The Mayflies, or Ephemeroptera, of Illinois. B. D. Burks, 1975 reprint of Bulletin of the Illinois Natural History Survey, Vol. 26, 1953. Entomological Reprint Specialists, Los Angeles, California, viii + 216 p., 395 figs. $15.00.," The Great Lakes Entomologist, vol 9 (4) Available at: https://scholar.valpo.edu/tgle/vol9/iss4/14 This Book Review is brought to you for free and open access by the Department of Biology at ValpoScholar. It has been accepted for inclusion in The Great Lakes Entomologist by an authorized administrator of ValpoScholar. For more information, please contact a ValpoScholar staff member at scholar@valpo.edu. 1976 THE GREAT LAKES ENTOMOLOGIST 2 09 the family Podapolipidae should be found on Lepidoptera. Dr. Treat and I have discussed this possibility but none have been found so far. Mites of Moths and Butterflies comes at an appropriate time to aid new workers in the study of insect mites. The literature cited and historical survey alone should be worth the price of the book. I recommend this book to anyone interested in the little creatures carried by insects. Robert W. Husband Department of Biology Adrian College Adrian, Michigan 4922 1 THE WORLD OF MOTHS. Michael Dickens and Eric Storey. Macmillan Publishing Co., Inc., New York, 1974. 128 p., 103 plates. $6.95. This little book will undoubtedly please the amateur collector and rearer of the exotically and exquisitely colored species such as found in the Saturniidae and Sphing- idae. Of the 103 colored photographic plates, 69 illustrate species from these two popular families. Each species is figured on a white background in sharp and vivid color. One species is figured on a page, except for Epicopeia polydora, which includes a figure of its mimetic model Papilio rhetenor. There is a brief text for each species citing the scientific name, family, common name, wingspan, range, habits and habitat, larval foodplants, sexual dimorphism, variations, and similar species. The differences in the size of moths figured, and lack of any scale, detracts from the book and may confuse its users. For example, the Spanish Moon Moth, Graellsia isabellae (10-12 cm) is shown as large on plate 39 as the Golden Plusia, Polychiysia rnoneta (3 .54 cm) on plate 94. After a preface stressing conservation and education in the study of moths, and brief acknowledgments, the introduction includes sections on life-history, rearing moths, structure and senses, light traps and lamps, education and conservation, classification, regions of the world, and explanation of text notes. The authors admit they have borrowed information from many well-known sources in preparing the book. Yet, there are no specific literature citations anywhere in the text, nor is there any bibliography. The authors consistently omit the author's name after each species which tends to  detract from the book as a scientific reference. Following the British custom, there is an index to the common names used with each plate. While there is little new information here to offer the scientist, the book will undoubtedly enjoy some appeal to the many amateurs who avidly collect and rear moths, especially those from exotic regions. In addition, this book will match the authors' earlier publication The World o f  Butterflies, which was completed in this same format. M. C. Nielsen 3415 Overlea Drive Lansing, Michigan 48917 THE MAYFLIES, OR EPHEMEROPTERA, OF ILLINOIS. B. D. Burks, 1975 reprint of Bulletin of the Illinois Natural History Survey, Vol. 26, 1953. Entomological Reprint Specialists, Los Angeles, California, viii + 216 p., 395 figs. $15.00. The continuing demand for general references and aids to identification of Ephemer- optera has undoubtedly prompted the recent reprinting of The Mayflies. . . of  IZlinois. A two-page preface by George F. Edmunds, Jr. dealing with taxonomic and nomenclatural changes since the original 1953 publication has been added and will serve as an adequate aid to those unfamiliar with changing concepts in mayfly systematics. The reprinting is of high quality with the large number of figures having been excellently reproduced in this hard-bound edition. Although over 20 years old, this treatise remains as one of the most cited works dealing with North American mayflies, primarily because it is one of the few works 1McCafferty: The Mayflies, or Ephemeroptera, of Illinois. B. D. Burks, 1975 rePublished by ValpoScholar, 1976210 THE GREAT LAKES ENTOMOLOGIST Vol. 9,  No. 4 attempting a comprehensive treatment at the species level. Another factor contributing to its broad usage is the fact that although it is oriented to the Illinois fauna, it is of much broader geographic applicability, and on a species level is of use for most of the eastern United States and Canada. The multifaceted introduction serves as a very good, short introduction to the study of mayflies in general, keeping in mind recent classificatory changes and recent advances in collecting, rearing, and study techniques. Keys to  adult male mayflies are helpful but must be used with caution for areas outside Illinois and, especially, the Midwest. Without prior knowledge it is difficult to  determine how comprehensively any genus is covered, e.g., in some genera, all of the species are treated, while in others, some of the species outside Illinois are not treated. Also, in most cases, descriptions are apparently based only on Illinois material (and type material when studied) with little attention given to variability. To the large number of aquatic biologists who deal with benthic insects and are forever searching for keys to identify species of mayflies in the immature stage, this work will not satisfy their needs in many cases. Little emphasis is given to larvae (there presently remains a dearth of information on this stage), and often it cannot be determined if the larvae are even described for a particular species. Keys to the larvae of species of genera such as Stenonema, Heptagenia, and Baetis are of only limited usefulness and determination may not always be reliable. I can recommend this work to  all students of Nearctic Ephemeroptera; and entomole gists and aquatic biologists in general will find many aspects of it worthwhile, especially until such time that more complete data have been compiled on the larvae a t  the species level. W. P. McCafferty Department of Entomology Purdue University West Lafayette, Indiana 47907 1973 EVALUATIONS OF SOME PESTICIDE RESIDUES IN FOOD: THE MONO- GRAPHS. Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Rome, 1975. 491 p. Available from Unipub, Box 433, Murray Hill Station, New York, NY 10016. $15.00. The evaluations of residues on foodstuffs contained in these monographs were prepared by a joint meeting of an F A 0  expert committee and a WHO expert committee on pesticide residues that met in Geneva and produced its report "Pesticide Residues in Food" published as WHO Technical Report Series No. 545 and F A 0  Agricultural Studies No. 92 in 1974. The monographs give the relevant data obtained from feeding tests with laboratory animals to make a decision as to the Acceptable Daily Intake of each pesticide, and thence to make recommendations as to the Residue Limits (Tolerances for residual contamination in ppm), from which member states of the UN can decide on their own Tolerance, and state the Pre-Harvest Interval from the last application to ensure that the residue will be below that tolerance. The monographs cover 23 pesticides, of which 8 are fungicides and 2 are used as acaricides; of the 13 insecticides, 3 are organochlorines, 8 are organophosphorus compounds, and 2 are carbamates. Besides the data on mammalian toxicity, they contain information on metabolites of the pesticide, on the dosages used and residues found under field conditions, and on analytical methods The pesticides that are of particular interest to growers in the Great Lakes region are benomyl and captan among the fungicides and lindane, toxaphene, malathion, azinphosmethyl and carbaryl among the insecticides. A. W. A. Brown Department of Entomology Michigan State University East Lansing, MI 48824 2The Great Lakes Entomologist, Vol. 9, No. 4 [1976], Art. 14https://scholar.valpo.edu/tgle/vol9/iss4/14

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Number 4 - Winter 1976 Number 4 - Winter 
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Article 14 
December 1976 
The Mayflies, or Ephemeroptera, of Illinois. B. D. Burks, 1975 
reprint of Bulletin of the Illinois Natural History Survey, Vol. 26, 
1953. Entomological Reprint Specialists, Los Angeles, California, 
viii + 216 p., 395 figs. $15.00. 
W. P. McCafferty 
Purdue University 
Follow this and additional works at: https://scholar.valpo.edu/tgle 
 Part of the Entomology Commons 
Recommended Citation 
McCafferty, W. P. 1976. "The Mayflies, or Ephemeroptera, of Illinois. B. D. Burks, 1975 reprint of Bulletin of 
the Illinois Natural History Survey, Vol. 26, 1953. Entomological Reprint Specialists, Los Angeles, 
California, viii + 216 p., 395 figs. $15.00.," The Great Lakes Entomologist, vol 9 (4) 
Available at: https://scholar.valpo.edu/tgle/vol9/iss4/14 
This Book Review is brought to you for free and open access by the Department of Biology at ValpoScholar. It has 
been accepted for inclusion in The Great Lakes Entomologist by an authorized administrator of ValpoScholar. For 
more information, please contact a ValpoScholar staff member at scholar@valpo.edu. 
1976 THE GREAT LAKES ENTOMOLOGIST 2 09 
the family Podapolipidae should be found on Lepidoptera. Dr. Treat and I have discussed 
this possibility but none have been found so far. Mites of Moths and Butterflies comes at 
an appropriate time to aid new workers in the study of insect mites. The literature cited 
and historical survey alone should be worth the price of the book. I recommend this 
book to anyone interested in the little creatures carried by insects. 
Robert W. Husband 
Department of Biology 
Adrian College 
Adrian, Michigan 4922 1 
THE WORLD OF MOTHS. Michael Dickens and Eric Storey. Macmillan Publishing Co., 
Inc., New York, 1974. 128 p., 103 plates. $6.95. 
This little book will undoubtedly please the amateur collector and rearer of the 
exotically and exquisitely colored species such as found in the Saturniidae and Sphing- 
idae. Of the 103 colored photographic plates, 69 illustrate species from these two popular 
families. Each species is figured on a white background in sharp and vivid color. One 
species is figured on a page, except for Epicopeia polydora, which includes a figure of its 
mimetic model Papilio rhetenor. There is a brief text for each species citing the scientific 
name, family, common name, wingspan, range, habits and habitat, larval foodplants, 
sexual dimorphism, variations, and similar species. The differences in the size of moths 
figured, and lack of any scale, detracts from the book and may confuse its users. For 
example, the Spanish Moon Moth, Graellsia isabellae (10-12 cm) is shown as large on 
plate 39 as the Golden Plusia, Polychiysia rnoneta (3 .54 cm) on plate 94. 
After a preface stressing conservation and education in the study of moths, and brief 
acknowledgments, the introduction includes sections on life-history, rearing moths, 
structure and senses, light traps and lamps, education and conservation, classification, 
regions of the world, and explanation of text notes. The authors admit they have 
borrowed information from many well-known sources in preparing the book. Yet, there 
are no specific literature citations anywhere in the text, nor is there any bibliography. 
The authors consistently omit the author's name after each species which tends to  detract 
from the book as a scientific reference. Following the British custom, there is an index to 
the common names used with each plate. 
While there is little new information here to offer the scientist, the book will 
undoubtedly enjoy some appeal to the many amateurs who avidly collect and rear moths, 
especially those from exotic regions. In addition, this book will match the authors' earlier 
publication The World o f  Butterflies, which was completed in this same format. 
M. C. Nielsen 
3415 Overlea Drive 
Lansing, Michigan 48917 
THE MAYFLIES, OR EPHEMEROPTERA, OF ILLINOIS. B. D. Burks, 1975 reprint of 
Bulletin of the Illinois Natural History Survey, Vol. 26, 1953. Entomological Reprint 
Specialists, Los Angeles, California, viii + 216 p., 395 figs. $15.00. 
The continuing demand for general references and aids to identification of Ephemer- 
optera has undoubtedly prompted the recent reprinting of The Mayflies. . . of  IZlinois. A 
two-page preface by George F. Edmunds, Jr. dealing with taxonomic and nomenclatural 
changes since the original 1953 publication has been added and will serve as an adequate 
aid to those unfamiliar with changing concepts in mayfly systematics. The reprinting is of 
high quality with the large number of figures having been excellently reproduced in this 
hard-bound edition. 
Although over 20 years old, this treatise remains as one of the most cited works 
dealing with North American mayflies, primarily because it is one of the few works 
1
McCafferty: The Mayflies, or Ephemeroptera, of Illinois. B. D. Burks, 1975 re
Published by ValpoScholar, 1976
210 THE GREAT LAKES ENTOMOLOGIST Vol. 9,  No. 4 
attempting a comprehensive treatment at the species level. Another factor contributing to 
its broad usage is the fact that although it is oriented to the Illinois fauna, it is of much 
broader geographic applicability, and on a species level is of use for most of the eastern 
United States and Canada. 
The multifaceted introduction serves as a very good, short introduction to the study 
of mayflies in general, keeping in mind recent classificatory changes and recent advances 
in collecting, rearing, and study techniques. Keys to  adult male mayflies are helpful but 
must be used with caution for areas outside Illinois and, especially, the Midwest. Without 
prior knowledge it is difficult to  determine how comprehensively any genus is covered, 
e.g., in some genera, all of the species are treated, while in others, some of the species 
outside Illinois are not treated. Also, in most cases, descriptions are apparently based 
only on Illinois material (and type material when studied) with little attention given to 
variability. To the large number of aquatic biologists who deal with benthic insects and 
are forever searching for keys to identify species of mayflies in the immature stage, this 
work will not satisfy their needs in many cases. Little emphasis is given to larvae (there 
presently remains a dearth of information on this stage), and often it cannot be 
determined if the larvae are even described for a particular species. Keys to the larvae of 
species of genera such as Stenonema, Heptagenia, and Baetis are of only limited 
usefulness and determination may not always be reliable. 
I can recommend this work to  all students of Nearctic Ephemeroptera; and entomole 
gists and aquatic biologists in general will find many aspects of it worthwhile, especially 
until such time that more complete data have been compiled on the larvae a t  the species 
level. 
W. P. McCafferty 
Department of Entomology 
Purdue University 
West Lafayette, Indiana 47907 
1973 EVALUATIONS OF SOME PESTICIDE RESIDUES IN FOOD: THE MONO- 
GRAPHS. Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Rome, 1975. 491 
p. Available from Unipub, Box 433, Murray Hill Station, New York, NY 10016. $15.00. 
The evaluations of residues on foodstuffs contained in these monographs were 
prepared by a joint meeting of an F A 0  expert committee and a WHO expert committee 
on pesticide residues that met in Geneva and produced its report "Pesticide Residues in 
Food" published as WHO Technical Report Series No. 545 and F A 0  Agricultural Studies 
No. 92 in 1974. The monographs give the relevant data obtained from feeding tests with 
laboratory animals to make a decision as to the Acceptable Daily Intake of each 
pesticide, and thence to make recommendations as to the Residue Limits (Tolerances for 
residual contamination in ppm), from which member states of the UN can decide on 
their own Tolerance, and state the Pre-Harvest Interval from the last application to ensure 
that the residue will be below that tolerance. 
The monographs cover 23 pesticides, of which 8 are fungicides and 2 are used as 
acaricides; of the 13 insecticides, 3 are organochlorines, 8 are organophosphorus 
compounds, and 2 are carbamates. Besides the data on mammalian toxicity, they contain 
information on metabolites of the pesticide, on the dosages used and residues found 
under field conditions, and on analytical methods The pesticides that are of particular 
interest to growers in the Great Lakes region are benomyl and captan among the 
fungicides and lindane, toxaphene, malathion, azinphosmethyl and carbaryl among the 
insecticides. 
A. W. A. Brown 
Department of Entomology 
Michigan State University 
East Lansing, MI 48824 
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