An illustrated obsession, a guidebook, a kaleidoscope of life on the wing. Liam O'Brien has spent three decades chasing, learning about, protecting, occasionally catching, and always loving butterflies. Here, he shares his capacious knowledge of California butterflies through a treasure trove of stories and 700 gorgeous, hand-drawn illustrations—featuring both adult forms and caterpillars—of the 135 species that live in the greater Bay Area. This sumptuous book also shares practical tips for finding and identifying all the butterflies who call the Bay Area home. Learn which plants nurture…mehr
An illustrated obsession, a guidebook, a kaleidoscope of life on the wing. Liam O'Brien has spent three decades chasing, learning about, protecting, occasionally catching, and always loving butterflies. Here, he shares his capacious knowledge of California butterflies through a treasure trove of stories and 700 gorgeous, hand-drawn illustrations—featuring both adult forms and caterpillars—of the 135 species that live in the greater Bay Area. This sumptuous book also shares practical tips for finding and identifying all the butterflies who call the Bay Area home. Learn which plants nurture Silver-spotted Skippers, which trail to hike to see Swallowtails flitting creek-side, and why so many butterflies cluster on hilltops. Share in the joy that O'Brien brings to the study of butterflies, and join the community scientists contributing to our understanding of Monarchs, Metalmarks, and Marbles—and what they need to survive and thrive in our busy Bay Area.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Liam O'Brien is a self-taught lepidopterist and illustrator. He used to be a professional actor, having appeared in Les Misérables on Broadway, but shifted his powers of observation towards nature several decades back. He's fascinated not only by butterflies but also by our relationships to them. He surveyed the county of San Francisco, where he lives, for which butterfly species remained in 2007 and 2009. He is the creator of the Green Hairstreak Project for the organization Nature in the City, and he led efforts to restore Variable Checkerspots to the Presidio. Since 2015 he has helped monitor the endangered Mission Blue butterfly in the Marin Headlands. O'Brien was the recipient of Bay Nature magazine's Local Hero Award for Environmental Education in 2014.
Inhaltsangabe
Introduction * What is a Butterfly? * The Parts of a Butterfly * The Scales Have It * On Metamorphosis * On Migration * A Moment for the Moths * On Nets and Collecting * On Common Names and Latin Names and the Big Bag of Crazy that That Is * On Butterfly Watching * The Structure of this Book * On Butterfly Counts * The Best Places to See Butterflies in the Greater Bay Area The Skippers (Hesperiidae) The Swallowtails (Papilionidae) * Essay: Tigers on Market Street The Whites, Sulphurs, Marbles and Orangetips: (Pieridae) * Bilateral Gynandromorphism The Brush-foots (Nymphalidae) * An Aberrant Form * Interview: Mia Monroe * On Silverspots, Lumpers and Splitters The Gossamer-Winged: Blues, Coppers, Hairstreaks and Metalmarks (Lycaenidae) * Essay: The Green Hairstreak Project * Essay: In the Shadow of Xerces * Tableau #20 The Almost Indistinguishable, Barely Discernible Differences * Between an Acmon Blue vs. a Clemence’s Blue. * Essay: On a Mission * Essay: Xerces Rising Appendix 1: Tableaux pages Acknowledgements Glossary Bibliography Organizations Index About the Author A Note on Type
Introduction * What is a Butterfly? * The Parts of a Butterfly * The Scales Have It * On Metamorphosis * On Migration * A Moment for the Moths * On Nets and Collecting * On Common Names and Latin Names and the Big Bag of Crazy that That Is * On Butterfly Watching * The Structure of this Book * On Butterfly Counts * The Best Places to See Butterflies in the Greater Bay Area The Skippers (Hesperiidae) The Swallowtails (Papilionidae) * Essay: Tigers on Market Street The Whites, Sulphurs, Marbles and Orangetips: (Pieridae) * Bilateral Gynandromorphism The Brush-foots (Nymphalidae) * An Aberrant Form * Interview: Mia Monroe * On Silverspots, Lumpers and Splitters The Gossamer-Winged: Blues, Coppers, Hairstreaks and Metalmarks (Lycaenidae) * Essay: The Green Hairstreak Project * Essay: In the Shadow of Xerces * Tableau #20 The Almost Indistinguishable, Barely Discernible Differences * Between an Acmon Blue vs. a Clemence’s Blue. * Essay: On a Mission * Essay: Xerces Rising Appendix 1: Tableaux pages Acknowledgements Glossary Bibliography Organizations Index About the Author A Note on Type
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