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Field Guide to the Caterpillars of Great Britain and Ireland
Author(s): Phil Sterling (Author), Barry Henwood (Author), Richard Lewington (Illustrator)
- Publisher: Bloomsbury Wildlife
- Publication Date: May 19, 2020
- Language: English
- Print length: 448 pages
- ISBN-10: 1472933567
- ISBN-13: 9781472933560
Book Description
A brand new identification guide to the caterpillars of Great Britain and Ireland with exceptional illustrations.
This beautifully illustrated field guide covers caterpillars of the moth and butterfly species that are most likely to be encountered in the British Isles. The helpful introduction includes information on caterpillar structure and function, behavior and evolution, while the species accounts cover status, field characters, similar species, habitat, foodplant and field notes, and are accompanied with up-to-date distribution maps.
Editorial Reviews
Review
“The drawings are perfect … the text is excellent. As a field guide it is hard to fault.” ―Peter Marren, British Wildlife
About the Author
Phil Sterling has more than 35 years’ experience in British nature conservation, and a life-long interest in Lepidoptera. He holds an MA (Oxon) in Zoology and his DPhil was on the Brown-tail Moth. He is a Fellow of both the Royal Entomological Society and the Chartered Institute of Ecology & Environmental Management. A national authority on moths, Phil has co-authored major field guides to micro-moths and caterpillars and has received two Marsh Awards for his contributions to insect and Lepidoptera conservation.
Barry Henwood has been interested in butterflies, moths and their caterpillars since primary school. He read Medical Sciences at Selwyn College, Cambridge and went on to qualify as a doctor at Guy’s Hospital Medical School. He worked as a GP in Newton Abbot, Devon for 26 years. He is a member of the British Entomological and Natural History Society and now volunteers for Butterfly Conservation and Devon Wildlife Trust. He has written and contributed to many publications in entomological journals. He has reared and photographed the caterpillars of several hundred species of macro-moths and butterflies.
Richard Lewington is an acknowledged leader in the field of insect illustration. His meticulous paintings of wildlife are the mainstay of many of the modern classics of field-guide art, from butterflies and moths, to bees, spiders and dragonflies. Richard has also designed and illustrated wildlife stamps for several countries. In 1999 he was awarded Butterfly Conservation’s Marsh Award for the promotion of Lepidoptera conservation, and in 2010 the Zoological Society of London’s Stamford Raffles Award for contribution to zoology. He is also a Fellow of the Royal Entomological Society.
