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Illinois Insects and Spiders

Introduction by Peggy Macnamara

University of Chicago Press in association with the Field Museum, 118 pages, $16 paperback

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This collection of watercolors elevates the wee pesky, insistent, disease-carrying creatures that define summer to a new stratosphere. In these pages, the predators and parasites become more than a necessary part of our ecosystem–they are living objects of beauty.