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Butterflies and Moths
Lori A. Spencer
Foreword by Robert Michael Pyle
Don R. Simons, Principal Photographer
A gorgeous guide to the beautiful butterflies and
moths of Arkansas
This beautiful
book continues the Ozark Society Foundation’s nature
series created almost forty years ago and is the first time
that all of Arkansas’s rich population of butterflies
and moths has been written about. Most of the butterflies
and moths in this guide are found throughout the eastern United
States and parts of the western states. Lori Spencer facilitates
species identification by presenting detailed text entries
alongside lavish, full-sized photographs.
The book includes 263 species descriptions and more than 300
color photographs, among them shots of larvae. General information
about butterfly gardening and prime butterfly locations is
also included. Spencer discusses each species’ life
cycle, survival, anatomy, and behavior, as well as presenting
collection of specimens. Maps break down the regions—and
hot spots—where they are found. The guide features an
extensive glossary and three indexes listing common names,
scientific names, and caterpillar host plants.
“This
new book is as pretty as a fritillary and as loaded as a Luna
Moth with sheer fascination of its topic. . . . Excellent
and innovative.”
—Robert Michael Pyle, author of Chasing Monarchs
and The Butterflies of Cascadia
“This
much anticipated and long awaited book lives up to my expectations
and more!! What a wonderful reference for all the butterfly
lovers of the world.”
—Janet B. Carson, extension horticulture specialist,
University of Arkansas
Lori
A. Spencer is a professional entomologist,
lepidopterist, and interpreter whose nature programs are in
wide demand throughout Arkansas. She coordinates the Mount
Magazine Butterfly Festival and consults for federal and state
agencies on butterfly management. She is the author of numerous
articles, many of them published in Ozarks Mountaineer.
October
2006
6 x 9
300 pages, 363 color photographs, drawings, maps, indexes,
glossary
$27.95 paper 0-912456-25-6 (978-0-912456-25-6)
Distributed
for the Ozark Society Foundation
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