This guide is intended for anyone involved in the management of woodland. It provides guidance on the woodland habitat features needed by butterflies and moths, and how to create, maintain and improve them. Includes woodland butterfly species accounts and specific habitat management advice, as well as a useful summary table of woodland Lepidoptera of concern, their status, habitat preferences and foodplants. Discusses management by habitat type, including coppice, rides, glades, woodland edges, open bracken habitats, grazed woodland, high forest, wet woodlands, deadwood and veteran trees, as well as information about managing deer, game and woodland Lepidoptera, habitat connectivity and some useful case studies.

Softback 62pp. Col. throughout

S.A.Clarke, D.G.Green, N.A.Bourn & D.J.Hoare, Butterfly Conservation, 2011