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A Field Guide to Eastern Butterflies (Peterson Field Guides (R)) | 
| Author: Paul A. Opler
Creators: Vichai Malikul, Roger Tory Peterson
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
Category: Book
List Price: $22.00
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Avg. Customer Rating:  8 reviews
Sales Rank: 175972
Media: Paperback
Edition: 1
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 512
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.2
Dimensions (in): 7.2 x 4.5 x 1
ISBN: 0395904536
Dewey Decimal Number: 595.7890974
UPC: 046442904537
EAN: 9780395904534
ASIN: 0395904536
Publication Date: May 15, 1998
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Product Description
This newly designed field guide features descriptions of 524 species of butterflies. One hundred color photographs as well as 348 color range maps accompany the species descriptions. The 541 exquisite color paintings clearly show even the most minute field marks. Introductory chapters include information on butterfly gardening, habitats, and conservation.
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 Excellent Resource for Butterfly watchers! August 18, 2006
Easy to use, with beautiful color pictures of real butterflies. Small enough to take with you butterfly watching.
 Excellent for the student December 20, 2005
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
Unlike some other reviewers I have always liked the Peterson guides best and this is no exception. The emphasis of the book is not simply on sight identification (which can be difficult at best) but also on a rounded education about the world of butterflies.
The first several chapters cover butterfly habitat, life history, behavior and other things helpful for the collector or student. The main chapters are divided by common names with each sub-heading giving both common and scientific names. The butterflies are described according to range, size, and habitat, and there is typically some discussion of the insects' identifying peculiarities.
This isn't the best guide for someone wanting to identity bugs in their garden - other guides have much better and many more photos - but for the general student this is the best.
 Not quite what I expected September 20, 2005
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
While the author doubtless put a lot of work into this work I did not feel it came up to the standards of other Peterson handbooks. Perhaps it was the wrong book for what I wanted but I would have liked to see more on the larval and pupal forms of the butterflies than there was. Also I felt the organization of the book was a bit confusing and hard to use.
Richard Sallee
We think Its Great! October 7, 2002
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
I got this from my son who needed a field guide to take to the park and forests. He loves it and so do I. Before we had borrowed our local libraries' 1950 edition of butterfly field guild. What an improvement! Unlike some people we just love it. The pictures are easy to use in the open where you can just notice a few things before whats being observed takes off flying. Opler is very good at listing the most obvious ID factors for each species. And it fits great in a back pack!
 Practically Useless August 29, 2002
13 out of 19 found this review helpful
Teensy-weentsy photographs (of which there are few) and tiny drawings do not an identification tool make. Often, the verbal descriptions given for a butterfly do not match, nay, directly contradict the photograph or drawing included! The practice of providing a textual description on one page, a range map (if there even is one) on another, and yet a third page for the descriptive drawing make this a page-turning nightmare. In short, take this book from your public library - don't waste your money on a very poorly done work.
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