Presents a chronicle of nineteenth-century America's fascination with butterflies that traces the achievements of six naturalists who identified countless new species and unveiled the mysteries of their existence.
"Moths occur throughout the terrestrial world, from inside the Arctic circle to the tropics. As the major part of the Lepidoptera, they thus comprise the Earth's second largest order of organisms after the beetles: nearly 200,000 species exist world-wide. Another volume in the p…
"Moths occur throughout the terrestrial world, from inside the Arctic circle to the tropics. As the major part of the Lepidoptera, they thus comprise the Earth's second largest order of organisms after the beetles: nearly 200,000 species exist world-wide. Another volume in the p…