Butterflies of the Bay Area and (Slightly) Beyond

Introduction




What is a Butterfly?
The Parts of a Butterfly
The Scales Have It
On Metamorphosis
On Migration
A Moment for the Moths
On Nets and Collecting
On Common Names and Latin Names and the Big Bag of Crazy that That Is
On Butterfly Watching
The Structure of this Book
On Butterfly Counts
The Best Places to See Butterflies in the Greater Bay Area


The Skippers (Hesperiidae)


The Swallowtails (Papilionidae)




Essay: Tigers on Market Street


The Whites, Sulphurs, Marbles and Orangetips: (Pieridae)




Bilateral Gynandromorphism


The Brush-foots (Nymphalidae)




An Aberrant Form
Interview: Mia Monroe
On Silverspots, Lumpers and Splitters


The Gossamer-Winged: Blues, Coppers, Hairstreaks and Metalmarks (Lycaenidae)




Essay: The Green Hairstreak Project
Essay: In the Shadow of Xerces
Tableau #20 The Almost Indistinguishable, Barely Discernible Differences
Between an Acmon Blue vs. a Clemence's Blue.
Essay: On a Mission
Essay: Xerces Rising


Appendix 1: Tableaux pages


Acknowledgements


Glossary


Bibliography


Organizations


Index


About the Author


A Note on Type

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