Butterflies through Binoculars: A Field, Finding, and Gardening Guide to Butterflies in Florida
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| Rating | : | 4.29 (814 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0195112490 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 256 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-02-20 |
| Language | : | English |
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"The Butterflies through Binoculars series may do for butterflies what Tory Peterson's landmark handbooks did for birds in the 1930s."--The Village Voice
Victor M Valdes said I love butterflies. This is a great book if you love butterflies and want to learn more about where to find them and study them. Michael Suttkus II said Simply Superb. This is one of the best presented field guides I have ever seen. Each and every species of Florida butterfly is pictured and described. Most butterfly guides I've seen use pictures of preserved specimens in a collection. This can be confusing because parts of the wings normally hidden are exposed when the collected specimen is mounted. This book avoids this problem by using only pictures taken in the wild (except for a few rare species). No more unnatural poses!The text is easily readable without extensive knowledge of obscure scientific words and has enough humor to keep it from getting dry and. "Best field guide for butterflies of the northeast" according to A Customer. If you are looking for a filed guide to the butterflies of the northeastern United States, this is THE book to get. Written for a relatively small geographical area, the book contains only those butterflies likely to be seen in the regioonunlike other guidebooks which offer many photos of butterflies not native to the regioon you are in. Excellent photos and the reduced subject area result in quick identifications. Although written for the northeast, the book is useful over a wider rangeI have even used it in Texas to great effect. Don't put too much stock in the information about flight period
It also offers, with unprecedented detail, much information on flight times and abundances for each of five Florida subregions, including reports on 70 localities in which to find butterflies. Butterfly enthusiasts, nature lovers, and curious general readers will perhaps be surprised to learn that Florida's butterfly fauna is unique--and that, until the appearance of this volume, there has been no adequate field guide for the butterflies of this region. Lastly, discussions of the foodplants for each species along with suggestions for attracting these species to one's garden make this work invaluable for all Florida gardeners interested in butterflies.. This guide simplifies identification by illustrating only species found in Florida--using superb photographs of live butterflies coupled with detailed range maps and identification data
Calhoun is Research Associate at the Florida State Collection of Arthropods.. Minno is a former Co-editor of the News of the Lepidopterists' Society. Marc C. Jeffrey Glassberg is President of the North American Butterfly Association and editor of American Butterflies magazine. John V