Product Description

This field guide. covering the butterflies of the eastern United States to a western boundary running from the eastern Dakotas to east Texas, identifies butterflies in their habitat, and includes information on unique field marks and flight patterns, ranges, seasonal abundance, and food plants. It is beautifully illustrated with 71 colour plates, with photographs of all the butterflies native to the eastern United States. The guide will allow butterfly watchers to identify butterflies in the field without the need to collect them. This guide, beginning a series of field guides, is a big improvement over the Audobon and Peterson guides, and one of the finest, most reliable, and useful field guides to any subject.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1200606 in Books
• Published on: 1999-03-25
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 400 pages

Customer Reviews

The best butterfly reference for the eastern US
Glassberg has the ability to share his passion about butterflies while providing excellent field marks to look for. This book sets the standard for future butterfly books but may be hard to top except by Glassberg himself. Even the description of butterfies contains thought-provoking or entertaining tidbits that make them a joy to read. Great photographs (except for one), information on habitat, flight period, host and foodplants, and range; just about everything you need to know. More importantly, Glassberg, who is president of North American Butterfly Association, employs the NABA checklist for common names. This is critical if you participate in a 4th of July Butterfly Count. If you have an older field guide, throw it out and buy this one. I have no plans on butterflying in the western US but I will be the first to buy such a book if Glassberg writes it.

This book makes butterfly watching and ID fun and easy!
If you've tried to identify butterflies and been frustrated, this is the book for you! If you like butterflies, gardening, or simply being outdoors, this too is the book for you! Spectacular photos of LIVE butterflies, brilliantly concise and educational text, excellent range maps, and seasonality charts make IDENTIFICATION easy. Users of this guide will learn quickly what many long-time butterfly watchers took years to learn. A fun tool for travel planning to butterfly hotspots too!

Truly a butterfly *field* guide, has extensive photos
Extensive photos of living butterflies shot in the field. Text and range maps opposite the photos, upper and lower views of males and females side-by-side with similar species. Photos also have arrows to each species diagnostic field marks.