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On the wings of Checkerspots: a model system for population biology.
Ehrlich, Paul R., and Ilkka Hanski.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004. Large octavo, dustwrapper, colour photographs, text illustrations and diagrams. WAS $135. This book lays out the insights into population biology, ecology and conservation biology that can be gained through investigation of a judiciously chosen model system, the populations of checkerspot butterflies that Ehrlich and colleagues..... More
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100 Caterpillars: portraits from the tropical forests of Costa Rica.
Miller, Jeffrey C., Daniel H. Janzen, and Winifred Hallwachs.
Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press, 2006. Octavo, colour photographs, paperback. Every bright Monarch butterfly or striking luna moth started out in a far subtler form of nature's mosaic, a humble caterpillar. It is this early stage of life - crafted by natural selection into machines for converting a vast array..... More
100 Butterflies and Moths: portraits from the tropical forests of Costa Rica.
Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press, 2007. Oblong format, colour photographs, softcover Walking a forest trail in Costa Rica, a visitor might be struck by the sight of an iridescent blue morpho butterfly fluttering ahead in the filtered daylight, or an enormous silk moth, as magnificently patterned and subtly colored as..... More
The Aurelian legacy: British butterflies and their collectors.
Salmon, Michael A.
Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000. Quarto, dustwrapper, colour illustrations, other illustrations. WAS $110. This entertaining and informative book traces the history of butterfly collection in Britain from the seventeenth century, when the study of natural history had its beginnings.	More