Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 82-600590 
U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service. 
Insects of eastern forests. Misc. Publ. 1426. Washington, DC: 
U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service; 1985. 608 p. 
Highlights the description and biology of numerous species of harmful and useful 
insects found in forests and forest products east of the 100th meridian. This manual 
provides the forest practitioner and others with the means for identifying these 
insects and their related organisms. 
KEY WORDS: damaging arthropods of America north of Mexico; entomological 
manual; forest pests in the United States: sap feeders, wood borers, bark beetles, 
and defoliators in North America; tree and wood-product pests. 
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