Description: This magnificent field guide is the latest addition to the exciting series that is revolutionizing the way we look at butterflies. Greatly expanding on Butterflies Through Binoculars: The Boston-New York-Washington Region -- identified by Defenders of Wildlife Magazine as "the first to focus on netless butterflying" and called "a clear winner" by the Audubon Naturalist -- Glassberg here shows us how to find, identify, and enjoy all of the butterflies native to the eastern half of the United States and southeastern Canada. This guide:
-- Combines the immediacy and vividness of actual photographs of living butterflies with the traditional field guide format
-- Emphasizes conservation over collection
-- Includes 630 color photographs, arranged on 72 color plates, of butterflies in the wild
-- Provides adjacent color maps that show where each species occurs in a given locality and for how much of the year
-- Supplies entirely new field marks for butterfly identification
-- Demonstrates how to identify subjects by way of the key characteristics butterflies are likely to display in their natural settings
-- Shows how species can be recognized both from above and below
-- Explains how to differentiate between males and females.

For butterfly enthusiasts, for bird watchers who want to add a new dimension to their hobby, for anyone who is simply interested in exploring the wilds of their own backyard, this new field guide offers hours of delightful help and instruction.

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