Butterflies and Moths: A Fully Illustrated, Authoritative and Easy-To-Use Guide

by Robert T. Mitchell and Herbert S. Zim

Book Overview

This Golden Guide from St. Martin's Press illustrates in full color 423 of the most common, widespread, important, or unusual North American species of Lepidoptera. Information includes:

How to identify butterflies and moths
How to attract, rear and preserve them for study
How to assist these fascinating insects in their struggle for survival

Plus range maps, a special emphasis on immature forms, and an inde of scientific names...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1582381364
• ISBN13: 9781582381367
• Release Date: April 2001
• Publisher: Golden Guides from St. Martin's Press
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.6" x 5.9"

Customer Reviews

Great little guide book

You know these pocket books. This like all of them is packed full of illustrations and information. Every page is filled with facts. Highly recommend

Highly informative, great for backyard identification.

My favorite source for butterfly identifying! The book includes which states the butterflies are commonly found in and detailed drawings.

Excellent!

For being just a tiny pocket guide this book is terrific! It has most of the common butterflies and moths as the title indicates but what I especially love is that it also shows the caterpillars! Its great to have these side by side so that if you find a caterpillar you can id it and see what its going to turn into. Really great reference.

Teaches in a Pleasing Way

I carried an earlier edition of "Butterflies and Moths" around with my as I traipsed about fields near my home, butterfly hunting. I'd find a butterfly (or moth, as the case may be) and approximate which one it was through this guide.The pictures are accurate. Not only will you see the butterfly, but a close up of various parts. There are maps showing where it can be found, a very useful tool when the picture doesn't seem to match. It can help you determine if you have a certain variation, or a very lost butterfly.Though a picture is worth a thousand words, the text found here is equally helpful. There are Latin names, pupae descriptions, eating habits and more. They've been careful not to overwhelm the reader, but there's plenty to whet the reading appetite of any young butterfly hunter.It isn't just for children. Anyone with a garden would be happy to have this as a reference or as curious reading to learn just who has been munching the lettuce.I fully recommend "Butterflies and Moths" by Robert T. Mitchell.Anthony Trendl

The perfect field guide to butterflies and moths

I recently purchased my second copy of this classic field guide. I still have my originial after thirty-six years (it sold for $1.00 back then). It is loaded with just enough useful information to help you identify many of the most common North American species. What I like most about this guide is the convenient small size.

a great place to start!

This golden guide is an excellent place to learn the basics. It's small, therefore portable, and pictures often show male and female variations, different coloration phases and a view of wings spread and folded. It also contains range maps and pupa and larva pictures for most butterflies and moths. Keep in mind, though, that pictures are artist renderings, not photos.

A Guide that lives up to the golden guide standard

Like all the other golden guide books, this one is very informative, the pictures give you a good way to identify butterflies and moths you find, and it is overall a very good read. I reccomend everyone to have at least on golden guide in their house, and this one is a very good one to have.