A Field Guide to Western ButterfliesThis all-new edition includes more than 590 species, illustrated in lifelike positions on beautiful new color plates. With descriptions of all the butterflies that occur west of the 100th meridian in the United States and Canada, this guide has accurate information on ranges, habitats, flight seasons, food plants, and more. Brand-new color range maps and more than 100 color photographs accompany the species descriptions. Paul Opler is the author of several books, including the Peterson Field Guide to Eastern Butterflies. He is a professor and senior research scientist at Colorado State University and a vice president of the North American Butterfly Association. Amy Bartlett Wright wrote and illustrated the Peterson First Guide to Caterpillars and illustrated the Peterson First Guide to Butterflies and Moths. |
Contents
How to Use This Book I | 1 |
How to Study Butterflies | 14 |
Butterfly Gardening | 20 |
Butterfly Distribution | 27 |
LIST OF PLATES | 34 |
Sulphurs | 52 |
Sulphurs | 54 |
Sulphurs | 56 |
Checkerspots and Patches | 84 |
Checkerspots Crescents and Elf | 86 |
Crescents and Checkerspots | 88 |
Anglewings Tortoiseshells and Ladies | 90 |
Brushfoots and Admirals | 92 |
Admirals Leafwings and Emperors | 94 |
Morpho and Satyrs | 96 |
Satyrs | 98 |
Sulphurs and Yellows | 58 |
Harvesters and Coppers | 60 |
Coppers and Hairstreaks | 62 |
Hairstreaks | 64 |
Hairstreaks | 66 |
Hairstreaks | 68 |
Blues | 70 |
Blues | 72 |
Blues | 74 |
Metalmarks and Snout | 76 |
Heliconians including Fritillaries | 78 |
Fritillaries | 80 |
Lesser Fritillaries | 82 |
Arctics and Royalty | 100 |
Dull Firetip and Spreadwing Skippers | 102 |
Spreadwing Skippers | 104 |
Spreadwing Skippers | 106 |
Spreadwing Skippers | 108 |
Spreadwing Skippers | 110 |
Skipperlings and Grass Skippers | 112 |
Grass Skippers | 114 |
Grass Skippers | 116 |
Grass Skippers | 118 |
GiantSkippers | 120 |
SUPERFAMILY PAPILIONOIDEA | 125 |
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Common terms and phrases
Agathymus ALPINE Erebia Amblyscirtes areas Ariz Atrytonopsis Baja Calif basal black border black spots blue butterflies Caterpillar Caterpillar eats cell spot checkered CHECKERED-SKIPPER CHECKERSPOT Chlosyne CLOUDED SULPHUR CLOUDYWING Colo COMMON SOOTYWING COPPER Lycaena costal cream dark brown derside Desert dots DOTTED-BLUE DUN SKIPPER DUSKYWING Erynnis EARLY STAGES east Euphilotes eyespots female FLIGHT FOOD forests forewing Forewing apex fringes FRITILLARY Boloria FRITILLARY Speyeria GIANT-SKIPPER grasses gray green Green Hairstreak HABITAT HAIRSTREAK Satyrium hind iridescent lacks legumes marbling median band METALMARK mottled mountains NORTHERN CLOUDYWING orange ORANGETIP OTTOE SKIPPER outer margin pale PARNASSIAN patch pattern plants PLATE postmedian band prairie RANGE red-orange REMARKS ROADSIDE-SKIPPER Amblyscirtes Rocky SATYR SIMILAR SPECIES SKIPPER Hesperia spots on forewing stripes submarginal band subspecies SULPHUR Colias SWALLOWTAIL Papilio tail tropical Amer Underside of hindwing Upperside usually veins W. H. Edwards Weidemeyer's Admiral West Western Tiger Swallowtail white spots wings woodland yellow-orange