A treasure. Hymenoptera highlights these insects in an incredibly rich selection of color photographs and text, that serve both in identification and to illuminate their lives and strategies. It is hugely pleasing. Superb.-- Bernd Heinrich, biologist and authorWinner of the 2024 Dartmouth Medal for most outstanding reference work, an annual award presented by the expert reference and collection development librarians of the Reference and User Services Association (RUSA), a division of the American Library Association (ALA).Stephen AMarshall''s natural history titles are among the most respected books on the insect world published in the last 20 years. More admirable than the books'' rigorous science, however, is that they are wholly suitable for a lay audience, including high school students interested in entomology.The books have been adopted as classroom texts at the university level and are on the reference shelves of many practicing entomologists.In Hymenoptera, Marshall has applie