{"id":24181,"date":"2017-06-05T22:25:28","date_gmt":"2017-06-06T03:25:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/?p=24181"},"modified":"2017-06-05T22:25:28","modified_gmt":"2017-06-06T03:25:28","slug":"a-guide-to-the-butterflies-book-review-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2017\/06\/05\/a-guide-to-the-butterflies-book-review-2\/","title":{"rendered":"A guide to the butterflies (book review)"},"content":{"rendered":"

A Swift Guide to Butterflies of North America<\/a>\"\" is a field guider’s field guide. It is the shape and size of a traditional field guide. The designers of this book said “we don’t need no stinking margins” so there are no margins. Color bleeds on the page edges allow a quick index to major butterfly categories. There is a two page spread visual index. A no nonsense introduction give you the basics about how to use the book, how to be a butterflyer, and how to not be a jerk about butterflies (like, don’t net them and kill them). The front covers even have those flaps that you can use as bookmarks.<\/p>\n

Ranges are an interesting problem with butterflies, since their biogeography is both very heterogeneous and in some cases rapidly changing. Also, a key feature of their breeding ranges is not so much when they are there, but how many times they cycle through broods over the warm months. So the maps are interesting:
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\"\"<\/a>A species entry is jammed with info. The color of the species name indicates something about its range, and key information about habitat, timing of adult phase, etc. is pulled out and highlighted. And so on. I’m giving a few examples of the pages here so you have an idea of how no nonsense serious this book is as a field guide. This is the book in which you find the butterfly, no question.<\/p>\n

This guide, by Jeffry Glassberg, world expert on butterflies, is the revised second edition of what has always been recognized as the most usable and detailed field guid for the average intense person. 3,500 photographs cover all known species in the region, depicting details and variants.<\/p>\n

The guide is photographic, but using modern techniques to this approach (which, in the old days, was usually not as good as drawing) so you have the best illustrations in this book.<\/p>\n

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\nSee also: Monarch Butterflies and Milkweed: An amazing new book<\/a><\/p>\n

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The information about each species in together with all the other information about each species.<\/p>\n

Species are grouped in major categories that are essentially morphological. So you go, “look, there’s a skipper” and look it up in the section on skippers.<\/p>\n

This is an excellent must have field guide.<\/a>\"\"<\/p>\n

From the publisher’s site:<\/p>\n

Jeffrey Glassberg is a leading butterfly authority and author. He is president of the North American Butterfly Association, editor of American Butterflies magazine, and the author of many books, including the Butterflies through Binoculars series. He is adjunct professor of evolutionary biology at Rice University and lives in Morristown, New Jersey.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The Table of Contents:<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Introduction 7
\nAbout This Book 7
\nButterfly Identification 7
\nButterfly Biology 8
\nNames 9
\nInteracting with Butterflies 9
\n“Releasing” Butterflies 10
\nConservation 11
\nNorth American Butterfly Association 11
\nWing Areas and Body Parts 12
\nAbout the Species Accounts 13
\nAbbreviations, Symbols and Glossary 14
\nAbout the Maps 15
\nSwallowtails Papilionidae 16
\nParnassians Parnassiinae 16
\nTrue Swallowtails Papilioninae 18
\nWhites and Yellows Pieridae 36
\nWhites Pierinae 36
\nMarbles and Orangetips 46
\nYellows Coliadinae 52
\nSulphurs 52
\nYellows 68
\nGossamerwings Lycaenidae 74
\nCoppers Lycaeninae 74
\nHarvester Miletinae 83
\nHairstreaks Theclinae 84
\nBlues Polyommatinae 122
\nMetalmarks Riodinidae 146
\nBrushfoots Nymphalidae 158
\nHeliconians and Fritillaries Heliconiinae 158
\nHeliconians 158
\nGreater Fritillaries 162
\nLesser Fritillaries 182
\nTrue Brushfoots Nymphalinae 190
\nPatches, Checkerspots and Crescents 190
\nAnglewings, Ladies and Relatives 220
\nAdmirals and Relatives Limenitidinae et al. 232
\nLeafwings Charaxinae 246
\nEmperors Apaturinae 250
\nSnouts Libytheinae 253
\nSatyrs Satyrinae 254
\nTiclears, Clearwings Ithomiinae 277
\nMimic-Queen and Monarchs Danainae 277
\nSkippers Hesperiidae 280
\nFiretips Pyrrhopyginae 280
\nSpreadwing Skippers Pyrginae 280
\nSkipperlings Heteropterinae 332
\nGrass-Skippers Hesperiinae 334
\nGiant-Skippers Megathyminae 394
\nHawaii 400
\nConclusion
\nPhoto Credits 402
\nSelected Bibliography 403
\nSelected Websites 403
\nCaterpillar Foodplant Index 404
\nButterfly Species Index 408
\nVisual Index 418<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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