A
About deserts and poisons 1
Acknowledgements vii
Ants 17-19
_Aphonopelma_ 13
_Apis mellifera_ 20
Arizona coral snake 24-25
Arizona mountain kingsnake 24-25
Assassin bug 14
_Avicularia_ 13-14
B
Back-fanged snakes 30
Banded gecko 35
Bees 17, 19, 21-22
Bellows bug 14
Black-headed snake 30
Black widow spider 7-10
_Bombidae_ 16
Brown house spider 10
Brown recluse spider 10-12
Brown spider 10
Bumblebee 17, 19
C
Centipede 2-3
_Centruroides_ 4-7
Chacho 36-37
Child-of-the-Earth 36-37
_Coleonyx variegatus_ 35
Conenose bug 14-17
Coral king snake 24-25
Coral snake 24-25
_Crotalus_ 25
D
Desert, a definition 1
Desert hairy scorpion 5
Desert scientists vii
Deserts of the United States (map) viii
_Dugesiella_ 13
E
_Eremobates_ 36
F
Fiddleback spider 10
_Formicidae_ 17
G
Gecko 35
Giant desert centipede 2-3
Gila monster 31-33
H
_Hadrurus hirsutus_ 4
Harmless creatures 34
_Heloderma_ 31
Honeybee 17, 20-22
Hornet 17, 19
Horned rattlesnake 26-27
_Hymenoptera_ 17
_Hypsiglena_ 30
I
Insecticides vii
J
Jerusalem cricket 36-37
K
Kissing bug 14
L
_Latrodectus mactans_ 7
Lizard 31-32, 35
_Lycosa_ 13
Lyre snake 30
M
Mexican vine snake 30
Mountain kingsnake 24-25
_Micruroides euryxanthus_ 24
_Mutillidae_ 17
N
_Niña de la tierra_ 36-37
O
_Oxybelis_ 30
P
Pesticides vii
Poison (definition) 1
Poisonous animals (definition) 1
Poison lizard 31-33
Publications you may wish to read 39
R
Rattlesnakes 25-30
_Reduviidae_ 14
References cited 39
S
Sand cricket 36-37
_Scolopendra heros_ 3
Scorpions 4-7
Sidewinder 26-27
Solpugid 36
_Sonora_ 30
Sonoran Desert Frontispiece
_Sphecidae_ 17
Spiders 7-14
_Stenopelmatus_ 36-37
Striped-tail scorpion 4
Slender-tail scorpion 4
Squash bug 14
T
_Tantilla_ 30
Tarantula 13-14
_Triatoma_ 14
_Trimorphodon_ 30
_Trithyreus_ 37
V
_Vejovis spinigeris_ 4
Velvet ant 17-18
_Vespidae_ 17
Vinegaroon 37-38
W
Walpai tiger 14
Wasps 17, 19
Western diamondback rattlesnake 25
Whip-tail scorpion 37
Y
Yellowjackets 19
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