Butterflies: A Complete Guide to Their Biology and Behaviour
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Butterflies starts with the familiar life cycle, charting development from egg to adult, mating and egg-laying. It continues by exploring less familiar aspects of the butterfly life-style: how they care for their eggs, the surprising things that some caterpillars eat, what happens inside the caterpillar to create the butterfly; why it is that there are so many variations in adult wing pattern and colour. These and many more issues are covered in this complete introduction to the butterfly, which concludes by considering the threats and opportunities that now face them.
Using examples from around the world, leading lepidopterist Dick Vane-Wright explores what it means to be a butterfly, from how the yellow birdwing finds a mate to why the African gaudy commodores produce adults of different colours.
Butterflies starts with the familiar life cycle, charting development from egg to adult, mating and egg-laying. It continues by exploring less familiar aspects of the butterfly life-style: how they care for their eggs, the surprising things that some caterpillars eat, what happens inside the caterpillar to create the butterfly; why it is that there are so many variations in adult wing pattern and colour. These and many more issues are covered in this complete introduction to the butterfly, which concludes by considering the threats and opportunities that now face them.
Fully revised and updated with new photographs and the latest research, this reformatted edition offers an overview of the biology and diversity of the major group of day-flying Lepidoptera.
Softback, 128pp, colour throughout
D. Vane-Wright, Natural History Museum Publishing, 2015
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