Richard Lewington

Pocket Guide to the Butterflies of Great Britain and Ireland (eBook, ePUB)

Illustrator: Lewington, Richard

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The second edition of Richard Lewington's pocket guide to the butterflies of Great Britain and Ireland.

Presented in an accessible, easy-to-use format, this is an ideal guide for both beginners and more experienced enthusiasts. It includes more than 600 superb illustrations of all the life stages of each species, together with beautiful artworks of the butterflies in their natural settings and pertinent species information, distribution maps and life history charts.

The second edition features a new, illustrated 'at-a-glance' identification guide, updated distribution maps and species accounts, and new spreads and artwork for the Cryptic Wood White and Scarce Tortoiseshell.

Part of the Pocket Guides series covering British and European wildlife, including garden birds, mushrooms, insects, wild flowers, trees and shrubs and tracks and signs.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK
• Seitenzahl: 160
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Juli 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781472938794
• Artikelnr.: 45353261

Autorenporträt

Richard Lewington is an acknowledged leader in the field of insect illustration. His meticulous paintings of wildlife are the mainstay of many of the modern classics of field-guide art, including The Butterflies of Britain and Ireland, Field Guide to the Moths of Great Britain and Ireland, Guide to Garden Wildlife and Field Guide to the Bees of Great Britain and Ireland. Richard has also designed and illustrated wildlife stamps for several countries. In 1999 he was awarded Butterfly Conservation's Marsh Award for the promotion of Lepidoptera conservation, and in 2010 the Zoological Society of London's Stamford Raffles Award for contribution to zoology. He is also a Fellow of the Royal Entomological Society.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Conservation The structure of a butterfly The life cycle of a
butterfly The six butterfly families How to use this guide At-a-glance
guide Main descriptions Swallowtail Skippers Whites and yellows Browns
Fritillaries, admirals and tortoiseshells Duke of Burgundy Coppers,
hairstreaks and blues Extinct species and rare migrants Day-flying moths
Further reading Index