Peterson First Guide to Caterpillars of North America (Peterson First Guides (R)) | 
| Author: Amy Bartlett Wright
Creator: Roger Tory Peterson
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
Category: Book
List Price: $5.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  17 reviews
Sales Rank: 43687
Media: Paperback
Edition: 2nd
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 128
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.1
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 3.7 x 0.4
ISBN: 0395911842
Dewey Decimal Number: 595.7804332097
UPC: 046442911849
EAN: 9780395911846
ASIN: 0395911842
Publication Date: May 15, 1998
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Product Description
Here is the first and only guide to a subject of great interest to gardeners, small children, and lepidopterists: caterpillars, the immature form of butterflies and moths. This guide describes 120 common species of these fuzzy creatures. All the caterpillars, their adult forms and many of their host plants are illustrated.
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 Great resource! August 13, 2008
Many of my students & kids at the nature center where I volunteer find caterpillars and want to know what kind they are. We also often keep caterpillars in our butterfly keeper and need to know what to feed the little wigglers. This book has the answers we need. The pictures are clear, it is easy to read and it is very complete-we have been able to find every specimen we have looked up. I have many field guides in many areas and have found it's always safe to trust any Peterson Guides.
wonderful quick guide / fairly complete for how small it is August 11, 2008
I bought this guide on a whim (for myself, as an adult) as I was starting to get interested in caterpillars. It's not complete enough to have every caterpillar you'd find in it (for that you want "Wagner's Caterpillars of Eastern North America", which I recently bought, but WOW is it big!). But, when I gave this book away to a neighbor with kids, I missed it so much I bought it again! It's a great book with not only illustrations of the caterpillar, but also the moth or butterfly it will become (something lacking in Wagner's book, because all moths are illustrated with their wings flat (and not necessarily how they land when you observe them)). All in all, this is a great beginners book and also one for the more advanced observe to keep around for helping introduce the pasttime to neighbors and kids! It packs in a lot of information of the most commonly found caterpillars.
 almost worthless July 11, 2008
This is a fine concept, completely unrealized. I bought it for grandchildren, but it would insult their intelligence. Authors picked out a very few species of charismatic, or at least colorful caterpillars, and left it at that. They did not bother to mention that only two or three of these stars occur throughout the US. Nor do they bother mentioning that 3/4 of all caterpillars will become moths, not butterflies. Nothing useful about how to look for caterpillars. Peterson Guides should have hired someone who cared about caterpillars and kids at least a little.
Perfect book for young and old! October 20, 2007
This book is awesome! Detailed pictures make it easy to identify your caterpillar and the descriptions are very informative. My boys, ages 6 and 9, love it and so do I!
 Peterson's Caterpillar First Guide book July 6, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This is a great little book. The size makes it easy to carry with you, but more importantly, the guide gives more detailed info on catapillars than do most Catapillar ID books. The pictures are all colored drawings, but are actually more useful and informative than many ID books using real photos. I really appreciate that the book goes into identifying cocoons, pupae, what the catapillars eat and etc... The only drawback with this book is that it only covers 120 caterpillars. Still, for the money, this book is excellent.
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