Authors: National Audubon Society, Robert M. Pyle
ISBN-13: 9780394519142, ISBN-10: 0394519140
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Date Published: July 1981
Edition: (Non-applicable)
Butterflies are among the natural world's most colorful and intriguing creatures, so what could be more useful than a handy field guide with more than 1,000 photographs of all the butterflies of North America north of Mexico, including all true butterflies, the most common skippers, and many migrants and strays. The color plates are visually arranged by shape and color, and thumb-tab silhouettes provide a convenient index to identification of butterflies in the field. The species account for each butterfly provides measurements, descriptions of each stage of the life cycle, and information on coloring or distinguishing markings, flight period, habitat, and range.
Introduction | 11 | |
How to Use This Guide | 31 | |
Part I | Color Plates | |
Key to the Color Plates | 35 | |
Thumb Tab Guide | 36 | |
Color Plates | 45 | |
Eggs, Caterpillars, and Chrysalises | 1 | |
White Butterflies | 52 | |
Sulphurs | 85 | |
Folded-winged Skippers | 133 | |
Spread-winged Skippers | 241 | |
Swallowtails | 316 | |
Angled-winged Butterflies | 361 | |
Hairstreaks and Elfins | 382 | |
Blue Butterflies | 463 | |
Copper Butterflies | 511 | |
Metalmarks | 541 | |
Checkered Butterflies | 556 | |
Fritillaries and Orange Patterned Butterflies | 592 | |
Boldly Patterned Butterflies | 643 | |
Eyespot Patterned Butterflies | 688 | |
Part II | Text | |
Swallowtails and Parnassians | 321 | |
Whites and Sulphurs | 350 | |
Gossamer Wings | 400 | |
Metalmarks | 518 | |
Snout Butterflies | 534 | |
Brush-footed Butterflies | 537 | |
Satyrs or Browns | 662 | |
Milkweed Butterflies | 711 | |
True Skippers | 716 | |
Giant Skippers | 846 | |
Part III | Appendices | |
Glossary | 857 | |
Butterfly-Watching Tips | 865 | |
How to Photograph Butterflies | 869 | |
Picture Credits | 873 | |
Host Plant Index | 881 | |
Butterfly Index | 901 |