The Bibliography So Far

The Twisty Center for Urban Varmint Research freely pillages the following reference works. Where the Twisty specimen fails to match up to phenotypes as described by the PhDs, or the various experts appear to be in disagreement, we take the most glamorous and satisfying guess, because, after all, lives are not exactly at stake here.

No animals were harmed during the making of this website.*

*except for that one gecko

Beck, C. Malcolm, and John Howard Garrett. Texas Bug Book. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1999.

Drees, Bastiaan M. and John A. Jackman. A Field Guide To Common Texas Insects. Houston: Gulf Publishing, 1998.

Jackman, John .A. A Field Guide to Spiders & Scorpions of Texas. Houston: Gulf Publishing, 1997.

Lockwood, Mark W. and Brush Freeman. The Texas Ornithological Society Handbook of Texas Birds. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2004.

Odonata Central. (n.d.).http://odonatacentral.bfl.utexas.edu/

Peterson, Roger Tory. A Field Guide to the Birds of Texas and Adjacent States. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1960, 1988.

Tveten, John L. The Birds of Texas. Fredericksburg: Shearer Publishing, 1993.

USGS Northern Prairie Wildlife Research Center. Butterflies of Texas. (n.d.). http://www.npwrc.usgs.gov/resource/distr/lepid/bflyusa/tx/toc.htm

USGS Northern Prairie Wildlife Research Center. Odonata of Texas. (n.d.). http://www.npwrc.usgs.gov/resource/distr/insects/dfly/tx/toc.htm