Butterfly Watching by Paul Whalley lands on the shelves of my shop.
Severn House, 1980, Hardback in dust wrapper.
Illustrated by way of: Black & White Photographs; Facsimiles; Colour Photographs; Black & White Drawings; Colour Drawings;
From the cover: Here is a book for people who enjoy sitting and watching butterflies go about their daily lives, rather than trying to catch them for collections. Collections play an important role in the scientific study of butterflies, but today there is also a need for more observations on butterfly behaviour.
In this book Paul Whalley shows how easy it is to derive pleasure from butterfly watching once you know where to look and what to watch for. He takes us into the field and explains how important it is to record our observations and how this should be done. He suggests many lines of enquiry for the butterfly watcher, and emphasizes the value of amateur observations in filling the gaps in our knowledge of butterfly behaviour. He covers rearing butterflies at home, attracting butterflies to the garden and butterfly conservation. Heather Angel, the well-known natural history photographer, has contributed a section on photographing butterflies, and there are appendices on places to visit, useful addresses and detailed butterfly life-histories. Specially commissioned drawings and over 60 photographs, 25 in colour, illustrate the text.
If you enjoy seeing butterflies alive and free, and you are interested in butterfly natural history and behaviour, this book will give you hours of pleasure and add a new dimension to your butterfly watching.
In the Severn House Naturalist’s Library series.
Very Good in Good Dust Wrapper. Heavily faded at the spine of the dust wrapper. Edges of the text block lightly tanned.
Blue boards with Gilt titling to the Spine. 160 pages. Index. Bibliography. 8½” x 5¾”.
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