Het Nachtvlinderboek (The Moth Book: Macro Moths from the Netherlands and Belgium, Including Caterpillars)

Complete and beautifully illustrated reference work on the native macro moths. Not only are about 100 species of butterflies known from the Netherlands, but also about 2300 species of moths. But few people know how large, beautiful and diverse this last group is; from the tiny mineer moths to pintails as wide as your hand. The moth book covers all, more than 900, native so-called macro moths.

The species descriptions provide clear information about appearance, ecology, distribution, flight time and distinguishing characteristics. In the species descriptions you will find beautiful photos of living moths and their full-grown caterpillars.

The introductory chapters elaborate on what moths are, how they live, how you can best find them, study and breed them, as well as tips that you should pay attention to when determining moths and caterpillars.

The moth book is the first original Dutch-language reference work on moths, the first work that also treats the caterpillars and shows photos of living and stuffed specimens.

Hardback, 672 pp, full colour, 4000+ photographs, all text is in Dutch

J. Voogd, KNNV, 2019