A Field Guide to Eastern ButterfliesThis newly designed field guide features descriptions of 524 species of butterflies. One hundred color photographs as well as 348 color range maps accompany the species descriptions. The 541 exquisite color paintings clearly show even the most minute field marks. Introductory chapters include information on butterfly gardening, habitats, and conservation. |
Contents
How to Use This Book I | 1 |
Swallowtails and Whites | 7 |
Whites | 8 |
Sulphurs | 9 |
How to Study Butterflies | 14 |
Butterfly Gardening | 25 |
Butterfly Habitats | 34 |
PLATES See list on page xvi | 42 |
Hairstreaks 14 Hairstreaks | 191 |
Hairstreaks and Blues | 200 |
Blues | 213 |
Blues and Metalmarks 18 Snouts and Brushfoots 19 Brushfoots and Acmon Blue 20 Brushfoots | 229 |
Brushfoots | 240 |
Brushfoots 23 Brushfoots 24 Brushfoots | 254 |
Brushfoots 26 Brushfoots | 288 |
Milkweed Butterflies Satyrs 28 Satyrs | 295 |
Flowers for Butterfly Gardens | 44 |
Eggs and Pupae Chrysalids | 50 |
Sulphurs | 62 |
Sulphurs | 64 |
Harvester Coppers Hairstreaks | 66 |
SUPERFAMILY PAPILIONOIDEA | 125 |
Swallowtails | 131 |
Swallowtails | 137 |
Arctics | 309 |
Openwinged Skippers | 317 |
Openwinged Skippers 32 Openwinged Skippers | 335 |
Various Skippers 34 Branded Skippers 35 Branded Skippers | 359 |
Branded Skippers | 379 |
Branded Skippers 38 Branded Skippers 39 Branded Skippers and Yucca GiantSkippers | 391 |
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adult Amblyscirtes anal angle ARCTIC areas Ariz basal black borders black spots Black Swallowtail blue broods butterflies Caterpillar cell spot checkered CHECKERSPOT CLOUDYWING costa dark brown DION SKIPPER discal DUSKYWING Erynnis EARLY STAGES eastern EASTERN TIGER SWALLOWTAIL edges eggs end of cell Euphyes eyespots female FLIGHT FOOD forests forewing forewing apex Fringes GIANT SWALLOWTAIL gray green HABITAT HAIRSTREAK hindwing underside Hübner instar iridescent lacks LEAFWING LONGTAIL lower Rio mainland tropical America male median band METALMARK Mexico Mexico south mottled nectar North America NORTHERN BROKEN-DASH ơ ơ outer margin pale patch perch plants PLATE postmedian line prairies RANGE Rare stray red-brown red-orange Red-spotted Purple Resident Rio Grande Valley SATYR SIMILAR SPECIES SKIPPER Hesperia SKIPPER ơ southern SOUTHERN CLOUDYWING stripes Strymon submarginal band submarginal row SULPHUR Colias SWALLOWTAIL Papilio tails Texas Underside of hindwing Upperside Upperside of forewing veins W.H. Edwards white spots wings YEHL SKIPPER yellow-orange