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Stokes Butterfly Book : The Complete Guide to Butterfly Gardening, Identification, and Behavior Paperback – October 17, 1991
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This comprehensive guide, illustrated with more than 140 stunning color photographs, tells you all you need to know to attract butterflies to your yard, identify them, and understand their behavior. The Stokes Butterfly Book covers everything from the life stage of a butterfly to how to design a garden that will attract a multitude of different species.
The book also includes:
- Tips on identifying almost any backyard butterfly, caterpillar, or pupa
- Comprehensive lists of the plants that butterflies are drawn to and the plants that their larvae feed on
- Information on how butterfly colors and markings fool birds and other predators
- Instructions on raising butterflies at home
- Complete information on the behaviors of 63 of the most common North American butterfly species
- Two sample butterfly garden plans
- Print length96 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherLittle, Brown and Company
- Publication dateOctober 17, 1991
- Dimensions8.5 x 0.25 x 10.95 inches
- ISBN-100316817805
- ISBN-13978-0316817806
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Dr. Ernest Williams, professor of biology at Hamilton College, has abundant field experience with butterflies and has studied and written about their ecology for many years.
Product details
- Publisher : Little, Brown and Company
- Publication date : October 17, 1991
- Edition : First Edition
- Language : English
- Print length : 96 pages
- ISBN-10 : 0316817805
- ISBN-13 : 978-0316817806
- Item Weight : 12.8 ounces
- Dimensions : 8.5 x 0.25 x 10.95 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #147,112 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #3 in Insect & Spider Field Guides
- #30 in Biology of Butterflies
- #240 in Bird Watching (Books)
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Don and Lillian Stokes are widely recognized as America's foremost authorities on birds and nature. Their books include the bestselling Stokes Field Guide to Birds, the Stokes Beginner's Guide to Birds, the Stokes Nature Guides, and the Stokes Backyard Nature Books. They live in New Hampshire and Georgia.

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