I have been looking for books to help me better understand and ID insects any suggestions?

Where in the world do you live?

Your profile mentions Virginia, so this recommendation is based on an assumption of North America. My go-to is Borror and Delong’s Introduction to the Study of Insects. It’s focused on North American taxa, and is often used as the required text in introductory entomology courses at the college leve…

Good general introduction https://www.amazon.ca/Insects-Natural-History-Diversity-Photographic/dp/1770859624/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=stephen+marshall+insects&qid=1606878289&sr=8-1 Assuming you dont want a field guide for a specific family, in which case you need to share what that is.

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I believe older issues of Borror and DeLong can be downloaded as pdf’s.

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