Butterflies of Michigan Field Guide (Butterfly Field Guides) | 
| Author: Jaret C. Daniels
Publisher: Adventure Publications
Category: Book
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Media: Paperback
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Pages: 380
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Dimensions (in): 6.9 x 4.2 x 0.8
ISBN: 1591930987
Dewey Decimal Number: 595
EAN: 9781591930983
ASIN: 1591930987
Publication Date: June 30, 2005
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Product Description
Perfect for backyard or field use, this guide features large, full-color photographs of each butterfly plus an illustration that points out key identification marks. Each entry is arranged by color, features a life-sized silhouette, and includes detailed information, helpful inset images and more!
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 A Handy Fieldguide for Michigan Butterflies October 17, 2008
I picked this fieldguide up in the local bookstore after a quick lookover and decided to purchase it as it was selective for Michigan rather than the entire eastern North American of my other butterfly field guide.
This book is easy to take in the field. Its dimensions are a portable 4 and 1/4 by 7 inches and compact despite its 376 pages. The species are organized by color which is both advantageous and a drawback in many ways.
For example if you were trying to remember the difference between the Monarch and Viceroy it is easy to find them in the orange section and compare. On the other hand if you were in the field and saw a Common Checkered Skipper which is mostly black on the top of the wings with large white marks and mostly brown on the bottom of the wing (the part most often seen when they are perched on a plant) you might not look in the white color section where it is in this book. This applies to several other species such as the Tawny Crescent, is it in the orange or yellow section of the book?
Other than the problem of organizing the book by color (which although imperfect my still be better than by taxonomic order for most people) the book is quite good. I liked the format with the description of the butterfly including eggs, larva, size, host plants, abundance, similar species and a range map of its locations in the state and chronology month by month of its appearance in the field opposite the picture.
The large photographs of each species are excellent and well worth the price of the book. In some instances I would have liked to have included larger images of the lower wings, females etc. than the small 3/4 thumbnails in the corner of the large image.
All in all a good little book for field identification of Michigan butterflies.
 Butterflies Of Michigan Field Guide (Butterfly Field Guides) November 11, 2006
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
This book is very helpful when looking for host plants in Michigan.
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