FG EAST BUTTERFLIES CL (Peterson Field Guide Series) Download Free (EPUB, PDF)
This all-new edition of the classic guide contains information on identifying marks, ranges, habitats, and other pertinent facts concerning 524 species of butterflies. Opler expands on a tradition of viewing these beautiful creatures as living organisms to be understood and conserved, not merely as specimens to be acquired. 48 color plates. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Series: Peterson Field Guide Series
Hardcover: 396 pages
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin (April 30, 1992)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0395364523
ISBN-13: 978-0395364529
Product Dimensions: 7.3 x 4.8 x 1 inches
Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds
Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars See all reviews (31 customer reviews)
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The maps in this book are a useful feature, but they are not provided for many of the species. The colour plates are very disappointing, as they often show only one gender of the butterflies and also ignore various subspecies and geographical variations. As the plates are made up drawings, it is often hard to identify species using this field guide, and the reader is left guessing as only the most common variation is shown. The text is quite well done, but moreadditions and details can be made. This book is hardly good as a main field guide (I greatly recommend "The butterflies of North America: a natural history and field Guide" by James A. Scott -- by far the best single-volume guide to American Butterflies), but it is useful as a pocket book that is light and does not take up much space.
As an amateur watcher just wanting to know which butterflies were in my garden, I was somewhat disappointed. I spent a great deal of time trying to compare the butterfly with the poorly represented plates. The few pictures scattered through the book were better, but I found errors in the identification given for the picture and the identification given in the plate and one was even not listed on the page they gave (or no where I have yet to find). The range listed were difficult for me to know if this species was in my backyard and not every species had a range map. These errors I found in one whole afternoon while trying to identify only THREE butterflies in my garden. Some of the book I like, like some of the intro information, but I guess other books have this info also. I was frustrated.
For almost half a century, Klots' Guide in the Peterson serieswas the best general text for identifying butterflies ineastern North America. I suppose this new edition still is,but it is a real disappointment in many respects. Itperpetuates the old style of illustration throughout withmuseum- spread specimens, many of which do not look at all theway butterflies are seen in the field. Skippers (where help isalways most needed) suffer particularly from this - surely amodern guide should also show them in side view, with wingsdeterminedly clamped together, with the useful body detailsand colouring and wing postures noted. Various scales are usedwilly nilly - it is not helpful to someone who needs a fieldguide to show the Great Spangled Fritillary the same size asthe Meadow Fritillary, for example. Several of the speciesthat strongly grade south to north in shade are shown in onlyone, southern, version - a Canadian would be hard put torecognize our Wood Nymph from the illustration here.Many species have more forms than are shown - Spring Azure forinstance. Some species are much more prone to sun-bleachingthan others - beginners would find a portion of an unwornMourning Cloak wing without a trace of yellow left, forexample, an instructive illustration of this....Given the rapidly increasing popularity of butterfly watching,the market is wide open for a better field guide. This one isa desk guide, for those who still carry a cyanide bottle withthem.
Unlike some other reviewers I have always liked the Peterson guides best and this is no exception. The emphasis of the book is not simply on sight identification (which can be difficult at best) but also on a rounded education about the world of butterflies.The first several chapters cover butterfly habitat, life history, behavior and other things helpful for the collector or student. The main chapters are divided by common names with each sub-heading giving both common and scientific names. The butterflies are described according to range, size, and habitat, and there is typically some discussion of the insects' identifying peculiarities.This isn't the best guide for someone wanting to identity bugs in their garden - other guides have much better and many more photos - but for the general student this is the best.
I got this from my son who needed a field guide to take to the park and forests. He loves it and so do I. Before we had borrowed our local libraries' 1950 edition of butterfly field guild. What an improvement! Unlike some people we just love it. The pictures are easy to use in the open where you can just notice a few things before whats being observed takes off flying. Opler is very good at listing the most obvious ID factors for each species. And it fits great in a back pack!
This book is acceptable. It provides helpful clues about each species as well as a measurement that can be useful. However, I have found that an entire species is missing from this book! After only a few weeks of use this tells me that there might be much missing!!! As well they sometimes only provide the upper wing pattern which is not going to help identify some skippers, blues, etc. The Kauffman guide is exponentially better when it comes to depictions, however this provides better descriptions of species like skippers that don't photograph well.The species missing is the Common Checkered Skipper.
I am using the Field Guide almost every day to figure out who is visiting the milkweed that has taken over my brick terrace. I did not use cement to seal the joints and they love to poke up between the bricks. I love butterflies and there are so few Monarchs now. So the milkweed stays and the butterflies rule. I can find another spot to rest my butt!The Field Guide is well done. Lovely colored plates that show the various markings for each butterfly. I just wish the butterflies would hold still a little longer so I can figure out if it is a Canadian Swallowtail or an Easter Tiger or? And the Fritillary's? An Aphrodite or an Atlantis?It is a wonderful book and is already getting a steady use. I think I will use it for the rest of my life. Well done.
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