Butterflies and Moths: A Guide to the More Common American Species
by Robert T. Mitchell, Herbert Spencer Zim
Golden Guides (Nature)
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Text and illustrations identify numerous butterfly and moth species found in North America. Includes a brief description of the life cycle, defenses, and enemies of these insects.Tags
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Golden Press has been producing these little guides for decades. Note the title of this series is a "nature" guide. Most in the nature series are not field guides which are used for identification. These nature guides are designed to introduce young children to specific study areas (ie. birds, flowers, pond life, etc.) in the natural sciences. Most are limited to common examples from large geographical areas. The information presented, in diagrams, descriptions and colorful illustrations, provides a basic introduction into the specific topic. They are wonderful for young children who can read. This rating is based on my judgement of the content, printing quality, and age of the reader.
Includes Geometer moths, but not the Stenoporpia pulchella or Sabulodes aegrotata which live in the desert SW.
Classic guide to Butterflies and Moths.
Classic guide to Butterflies and Moths.
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Herbert S. Zim was born in 1909 in New York City. He was a naturalist, author, editor and also known as the fonder and editor in chief of the Golden Guides series of nature books. Zim wrote or edited more than one hundred scientific books, and in a thirty-year career teaching in the public schools introduced laboratory instruction into elementary show more school science. He is best known as the founder in 1945, of the Golden Guides, pocket-size introductions for children to such subjects as fossils, zoology, microscopy, rocks and minerals, codes and secret writings, trees, wildflowers, dinosaurs, navigation and more. He was the sole or co-author for many of the books, which were valued for their clarity, accuracy and attractive presentation helped by the illustrations of James Gordon Irving. He continued to work on the Golden Guides series until Alzheimer's disease forced him to slow down in the 1990s. He died in 1994 at Plantation Key, Florida. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Canonical title
- Butterflies and Moths: A Guide to the More Common American Species
- Original publication date
- 1962
- Important places
- North America
- First words
- Butterflies and moths are most numerous in the tropics, but temperate areas have a bountiful supply of many species.
- Original language
- English
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- 959
- Popularity
- 27,449
- Reviews
- 4
- Rating
- (3.50)
- Languages
- English
- Media
- Paper, Ebook
- ISBNs
- 8
- ASINs
- 17
