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Butterflies of Pennsylvania: A Field Guide

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Winner of the 2017 National Out of doors Book Award, Nature Guidebook category.

How do you tell a Striped Hairstreak butterfly from a Regal Fritillary butterfly? By the use of Butterflies of Pennsylvania, the most comprehensive, user-friendly field guide up to now of the entire species ever recorded within Pennsylvania’s 46,056 square miles.
            Over 900 brilliant color photographs illustrate both the upper and under side of female and male specimens of each and every species, including skippers. Information on distinguishing marks, traits, wingspan, habitat, larval host plants, and handy facts offer assistance for field identification. The images depict the species in their native environments, in addition to finely detailed museum-quality mounted specimens. County-by-county maps show where each and every species has been recorded within the state, and graphs detail when They’re present and possibly to be seen.
            Butterflies are arguably the most recognized, studied, and beloved of all insects. They’re essential to healthy ecosystems, agricultural viability, and in the long run human and animal survival. Butterflies of Pennsylvania will serve as a handy reference for a broad readership including students and educators, backyard butterfly enthusiasts and gardeners, conservationists and naturalists, public and school libraries, entomologists, lepidopterists, and butterfly watchers in general.

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