Butterflies - Hardcover

Featuring 120 striking color photographs by Brian Kenney and enlightening text by David Badger, this book presents a natural and cultural history of these ephemeral creatures from the order Lepidoptera. Butterflies highlights 40 of the most fascinating butterfly species from around the world, including painted ladies, blue crackers, long-tailed skippers, Southern dogfaces, American snouts, Guatamalan satyrs, ruddy daggerwings, and shoemakers. The book also offers an introduction to physical characteristics and behavior, butterfly-human relations, conservation, and the art of photographing butterflies.

Butterflies presents a natural and cultural history of the great beauties of the insect world. Featuring 140 striking color photographs by Brian Kenney and informative text by David Badger, the book highlights 60 of the most fascinating butterfly species from around the world, including painted ladies, variable crackers, long-tailed skippers, Southern dogfaces, American snouts, Guatemalan satyrs, ruddy daggerwings, and shoemakers. Badger also offers an introduction to physical characteristics and behavior, butterfly-human relations, conservation, and the art of photographing butterflies.

 

Gorgeously illustrated and written in accessible and engaging prose, this guide is a must for butterfly enthusiasts—and for anyone else who cherishes the splendors of the natural world.