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Florida Butterfly Caterpillars and Their Host Plants

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Excellent book. My back yard garden is devoted to butterfly nectar and host plants and have found this book invaluable when I needed to identify a caterpillar that I had not seen before. Photographs of the caterpillar are opposite a sketch of the Florida peninsula that show the habitat range of that butterfly. Also photographs of host plants, their habitat and the larvae that eat them. This is an excellent companion book to have alongside "Butterflies Through Binoculars - Florida," by Jeffrey Glassburg.

I use this book extensively, even though written specifically on butterflies of Florida. It is an all-encompassing study of butterflies, larvae, and host plants, most of which are also found throughout nearby states. The introduction contains caterpillar anatomy, biology and more. There is section for butterfly host plants, and it includes good color images fo the plants. An informative book for those who live in the Southeast.

If you watch butterflies in Florida, you need this book. You get lots more butterflies if you plant the right larval food, and this connects butterfly with caterpillar with caterpillar food!

Bought this book when I moved to Florida from New York...it is a GREAT BOOK !!!!!....it has been invaluable to me in my backyard Butterfly Garden...not only is it GREAT for Butterflies ,but more importantly, it is GREAT for Host Plants and for identifying Catepillars...a MUST HAVE !!!!!!!

Hard to find book with the information contained. Have recommed to several others. Cost was average including shipping.