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Perfect for backyard or field use, this guide features large, full-color photographs of each butterfly plus an illustration that points out key identification marks. Each entry is arranged by color, features a life-sized silhouette, and includes detailed information, helpful inset images and more! ... Read more

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Very useful guide
Butterflies of Michigan:Field Guide is arranged by predominant color (the first thing you notice about a butterfly) then by size (the second thing you notice).Each butterfly's description has two pages, with color photo and comments on the left page and name and description on the right.A very helpful addition is the relative shape and size in silhouette behind the comments.Each butterfly also has a range map, and a diagram showing both dorsal and ventral views.For commonly confused butterflies, the author includes ways to differentiate between them.

The pages are glossy and sturdy, so you could take this guide out in the field with you.

I highly recommend it, whether you have only a passing interest or a real passion for butterflies.It's easy to use and packed with information.

Very NICE book, but has one small flaw.
I pretty much love everything about this book, well almost everything. I was looking forward to identifying host plants to draw the butterflies that I most wanted to see. On each page, a few of the LARVAL host plants are listed for each butterfly but the ADULT host plants are all compacted onto a couple of pages at the end of book. And nowhere does it say which plants attract which butterflies. I was really disappointed about this as I wanted to plant specific butterfly-attracting plants in the hopes of attracting some of the more vibrant, perhaps lesser-seen butterflies. But since the plants are listed without telling which butterflies they most attract, I'm back at square one as far as planting my butterfly garden.

Having said that, this book is GREAT for identifying butterflies. I've taken a lot of wildlife photos over the last 3 years and have some of butterflies I hadn't identified. After I got this book I was able to check off 16 different butterflies that I've personally seen (and photographed.) Oh yeah, I forgot to mention that there's a little box next to each butterfly in the index in the back of the book to check as you go, really neat. Overall, a great buy. It's my favorite book right now :o).

Shelly Lyons, Taylor, MI

A Handy Fieldguide for Michigan Butterflies
I picked this fieldguide up in the local bookstore after a quick lookover and decided to purchase it as it was selective for Michigan rather than the entire eastern North American of my other butterfly field guide.

This book is easy to take in the field.Its dimensions are a portable 4 and 1/4 by 7 inches and compact despite its 376 pages.The species are organized by color which is both advantageous and a drawback in many ways.

For example if you were trying to remember the difference between the Monarch and Viceroy it is easy to find them in the orange section and compare.On the other hand if you were in the field and saw a Common Checkered Skipper which is mostly black on the top of the wings with large white marks and mostly brown on the bottom of the wing (the part most often seen when they are perched on a plant) you might not look in the white color section where it is in this book.This applies to several other species such as the Tawny Crescent, is it in the orange or yellow section of the book?

Other than the problem of organizing the book by color (which although imperfect my still be better than by taxonomic order for most people) the book is quite good.I liked the format with the description of the butterfly including eggs, larva, size, host plants, abundance, similar species and a range map of its locations in the state and chronology month by month of its appearance in the field opposite the picture.

The large photographs of each species are excellent and well worth the price of the book.In some instances I would have liked to have included larger images of the lower wings, females etc. than the small 3/4 thumbnails in the corner of the large image.

All in all a good little book for field identification of Michigan butterflies.

Butterflies Of Michigan Field Guide (Butterfly Field Guides)
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Swallowtails, sulphurs, and skippers. Brushfoots, whites, and gossamer wings. So many different kinds of butterflies!

In her highly praised Style, Carol Lerner shows you how to lure these winged beauties into your garden. She vividly depicts flowers that attract hungry butterflies, as well as plants where they leave their eggs. Her clear text explains what butterflies eat and how they grow -- from caterpillars to full-grown fliers.

Every bright butterfly inside this book also appears on the endpapers. Can you match them all? With some practice, you'll soon be able to identify those that come to your own butterfly garden.

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butter flies in butterflies
This book is exceptional by an exceptionally talented artist and author.The book was so well received that a Korean company has put out a version of it completely in the Korean
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For the littlest lepidopterists
Butterfly meets flower in this well illustrated picture book.Each page includes several butterflies and flowers.The butterflies are all idientified on the end pages, but are not named throughout the book.The flowers are, however, and one can make a game of identifying each butterfly on the pages, just as you might in your own garden, and take note of the flowers each species prefers.Butterflies in this book are categorized by family, so you can make an educated guess as to the type of those butterflies which fly into your yard that are not represented in the book.The large format is simple and uncluttered...perfect for emerging lepidopterists. ... Read more

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A host of ideas and projects for the do-it-yourself gardener is accompanied by numerous full-color illustrations and photographs, plant tips, and regional information to help gardeners create an Earth-friendly landscape to appeal to a variety of birds and other wildlife. 30,000 first printing. ... Read more

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THE MAJORITY OF LOST CHILDREN CANNOT PROVIDE AN ADDRESS OR TELEPHONE NUMBER. These stories and activities help children learn and remember this important information.

In the first story, Natasha Victory loves bunnies and knows the names of all the flowers and butterflies in her backyard, but she gets anxious when she has to learn her address and telephone number for homework. Her dad tells a “Bunny Story” in which Natasha and her sister play with the five bunnies in a backyard filled with flowers and passing butterflies. Dad tells the “Bunny Story” for several nights, and soon Natasha knows every word, including her address and phone number.

In the second story, Josh and Jake sail off to Next Door Island to find the Sweet Treasure. There, they meet Long Bill the map keeper and No Beard the Feared, a no-nonsense girl pirate. Long Bill has a map that leads to the Sweet Treasure, but it only words and numbers. He explains that these are addresses. Discovering that Josh and Jake do not know their address, No Beard orders them to walk the plank. Amazed by Josh and Jake’s golden shovel and needing it to dig for the Sweet Treasure, Long Bill and No Beard decide to help Josh and Jake learn their address. In the end, Josh and Jake are able to read the map and locate the Sweet Treasure.

The Address Detective and Phone Number Hunter activities help kids understand and remember their address and telephone number. Additional text and illustrations introduce the butterfly life cycle, common butterfly species, and the basics of butterfly gardening. Professor Parrot's Perfect Pirate's Dictionary, Famous Female Pirates, and a Make-Your-Own-Story template are included in the book.

And they all lived safely ever after. THE END

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Butterflies are one of nature's most beloved creations. Over the years many people have wondered at them, admired and studied them.

In this beautifully written and comprehensive guide, Mary Kate Woodward provides detailed tips for attracting, supporting and enjoying the butterflies of the Pacific Northwest. Topics covered include favorite food plants and larval hosts, garden layout and design, a butterfly directory, sources of plants and seeds (resource guide), index of common names, and many other essentials to relax, observe and enjoy your butterfly garden.

This is a concise and up-to-date directory of butterflies, each one beautifully photographed and illustrated, and the only book on butterfly gardening for the Pacific Northwest region. ... Read more

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12 PAGE COLOR BOOKLET-VERY NICE PHOTOS. ... Read more

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BONUS: Backyard Field Guide to 50 Birds and Butterflies - 90-plus colorful plants for any yard - Money-Saving Hints to Attract More Birds- Hummingbirds! Proven tips you won't find anywhere else - Garden plans - Small Space Solutions - Ideas for all regions ... Read more

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Title: Butterfly gardening in your backyard: fill your yard with living colors with garden educator Patricia Collins.(digging in)
Author: Patricia Collins
Publication: New Life Journal (Magazine/Journal)
Date: July 1, 2005
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 6Issue: 7Page: 26(1)

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Chapters: Butterfly, Differences Between Butterflies and Moths, Hedylidae, Imelda Marcos, Mud-Puddling, Butterfly Zoo, Butterfly Gardening, Butterfly Evolution, Papilionoidea, Butterfly Watching, Ditrysia, Hill-Topping, Anglewing, Libytheana, List of Extinct Butterflies, Osmeterium, Key West Butterfly and Nature Conservatory, Butterfly Conservation, Necyria, North American Butterfly Association, Gita Persada Butterfly Park, Cyclopides, Milanion, Argyreus Hyperbius. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 107. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Macrosoma Hübner, 1818 for Species, see List of species Hedylidae, the "American moth-butterflies", is a family of insects in the lepidopteran order, representing the superfamily Hedyloidea. They are an extant sister group of the butterfly superfamilies Papilionoidea and Hesperioidea. In 1986, Scoble combined all species into a single genus Macrosoma, comprising 35 currently recognized and entirely Neotropical species, as a novel concept of butterflies. Hedylidae were previously treated as a tribe of Geometridae: Oenochrominae, the "Hedylicae" Prout considered they might even merit treatment as their own family. Scoble first considered them to be a hitherto unrecognised group of butterflies and also suggested Hedylidae might possibly constitute the sister group of the "true" butterflies (Papilionoidea, rather than of (Hesperioidea + Papilionoidea). Weintraub and Miller argued against this placement (but see). In 1995, Weller and Pashley found that molecular data did indeed place Hedylidae with the butterflies and a more comprehensive study in 2005 based on 57 exemplar taxa, three genes and 99 morphological characters, recovered the genus Macrosoma as sister to the ("true butterflies" + "skippers"). Since there are no obvious gaps between supposed spe...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=7204985 ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Prairie Garden, published by Manitoba Prairie Garden Committee on January 1, 2005. The length of the article is 1823 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Adventures in butterfly gardening.
Author: Shirley Froehlich
Publication: Prairie Garden (Magazine/Journal)
Date: January 1, 2005
Publisher: Manitoba Prairie Garden Committee
Volume: 2005Page: 162(4)

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