This field guide to Indiana's rich butterfly fauna covers all 149 species of butterflies and their close relatives, the skippers. Belth also offers an introduction to the natural history of butterflies --
This field guide identifies butterflies first by primary color and then gives detailed information: common name, scientific name, family/subfamily, and specific physical features with colored photo and comments.
Provides illustrations of Michigan's recorded butterflies and skippers and comments on their identification, habitat, adult food sources, larval host plants and distribution in the state.
The defination of butterflies and a general discussion of them, and a description of the physiography and climate of South Dakota (with color illustrations of the landscape) is followed by reports on 177 butterfly species found in South Dakota, listed by families. Each report consists of the common and Latin names; short sections on description, similar species, distribution and habitat (including a shaded map of counties of distribution), early stages, larval host plants, adult energy sources, flight period, and general comments; and prints from photographs showing (at least) an upper view of a male, one of a female, and an under view of one. The end material includes a checklist of South Dakota butterflies, a butterfly calendar, and a hypothetical list [butterflies which might live in the state, but which have not yet been recorded].
This all-new edition includes information on more than 590 species, illustrated in lifelike positions in 44 beautiful color plates. 110 color photos. Line drawings & maps.
Provides common and scientific names, size, gender specific and seasonal representations, and habitats for 64 easily seen midwestern species of butterflies.
The only field guide for identifying the birds, mammals, trees, wildflowers, insects, reptiles, amphibians, fishes, spiders, mushrooms, ferns, grasses, and sky of the Midwest.
This welcome addition to Iowa’s popular series of laminated guides—the twenty-seventh in the series—illustrates fifty-one species commonly found in the Upper Midwest states of Illinois, Iowa, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio, and Wisconsin. The Saturniid, or Giant Silk moths, are well named. Their large size—up to 6.5 inches for the cecropia moth—and the soft silky browns, greens, and oranges of their wings are unforgettable when they appear at a lighted window at night. Equally well named are the Sphinx or Hawk moths, important pollinators that hover like hummingbirds when nectar-feeding at dusk and even in daylight. The caterpillars of both families can be just as distinctive as the adults, as anyone who has ever come upon a tobacco or a tomato hornworm can attest. For each species the authors have included common and scientific names, wingspan, and time of flight for the adults at this final stage in their life cycle. Striking photographs of the adult moths and of their larval stages make this guide as beautiful as it is useful. For all naturalists captivated by the clear window eyespots of a Swallow-tailed Luna moth, the dark eyespots and bright yellow “pupils” of an Io moth, or the extendable proboscis of a White-lined Sphinx moth flitting from one moss rose to another, the photographs and descriptions in Moths in Your Pocket will be an invaluable reference.