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Species Lerodea eufala - Eufala Skipper - Hodges#4111
A Field Guide to Western Butterflies 2nd Edition By Paul A. Opler, illustrated by Amy Bartlett Wright
Houghton Mifflin, 1999
Contributed by David Moll on 3 January, 2007 - 3:01pm |
Butterflies of the Lower Rio Grande Valley By Roland H. Wauer
Johnson Books, 2004
This book does not have the best quality photos, but is very useful for its natural history information, especially for the large number of Mexican species which occur in the US only as very rare strays and so do not get covered in the butterfly field guides with broader geographic coverage like Kaufman, Glassberg, etc.
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The Butterflies of Cascadia: A Field Guide to All the Species of Washington, Oregon, and Surrounding Territories By Robert Michael Pyle, Idie Ulsh, David Nunnallee
Seattle Audubon Society, 2002
A very useful field guide and reference to, as the subtitle states, all the species of Washington, Oregon, and surrounding Territories.
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Butterflies through Binoculars: Florida By Jeffrey Glassberg, Marc C. Minno, John V. Calhoun
Oxford Press, 2000
The best part of this book is the many good site location write-ups for the butterflies all over the state of Florida, including the Keys.
Contributed by tom murray on 22 October, 2005 - 11:23am |
 Butterflies Through Binoculars: The West : A Field Guide to the Butterflies of Western North America (Butterflies and Others Thr By Jeffrey Glassberg
Oxford University Press, 2001
Contributed by tom murray on 10 October, 2005 - 9:02am |
 Butterflies of the East Coast : An Observer's Guide By Rick Cech, Guy Tudor
Princeton University Press, 2005
This is a work of art, with in depth details on all the butterflies from Maine to Florida. It's a must have for butterfly enthusiasts.
This book is the best butterfly book out there, with 8.5" x 11" pages, good size high quality photos of the butterflies dorsal and ventral, foodplant pictures and some caterpillar pics, taken by Rick. Then there's a full page text on each butterfly, telling a story about each one, then a detailed identification, habitat, hostplants, occurance, and ecology, not to mention range maps of the east coast.
Contributed by tom murray on 9 October, 2005 - 8:14pm |
 California Butterflies (California Natural History Guides (Paperback)) By John S. Garth, J.W. Tilden
University of California Press, 1988
Detailed reference on distribution and ecology in California.
Contributed by Cotinis on 17 July, 2005 - 5:31am |
 Florida Butterfly Caterpillars And Their Host Plants By Marc C. Minno, JERRY F. BUTLER, DONALD W. HALL
University Press Florida, 2005
A useful and innovative work that combines a field guide to the caterpillars with a field guide to their host plants. Host plant pictures are in general hard to come by, especially in a single volume, since they don't fall under a general group such as Wildflowers or Trees, and many are not particularly showy. About 100 pages of this 300+ page volume are devoted to the plants, 150 pages to the caterpillars, the remainder covers natural history information about this oft-neglected (not to say despised) stage of the lepidopteran life cycle. Only a few adult butterfly pictures appear, in the general introduction, but as we know those have been widely published elsewhere.
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