By Ernest Williams

By Lillian Q. Stokes

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Fill your backyard with some of nature’s most beautiful creatures with this comprehensive and beautifully illustrated guide from America’s foremost nature authorities.

This comprehensive guide, illustrated with more than 140 stunning color photographs, tells you all you need to know to attract butterflies to your yard, identify them, and understand their behavior. The Stokes Butterfly Book covers everything from the life stage of a butterfly to how to design a garden that will attract a multitude of different species.

The book also includes:

Tips on identifying almost any backyard butterfly, caterpillar, or pupa
Comprehensive lists of the plants that butterflies are drawn to and the plants that their larvae feed on
Information on how butterfly colors and markings fool birds and other predators
Instructions on raising butterflies at home
Complete information on the behaviors of 63 of the most common North American butterfly species
Two sample butterfly garden plans

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On Sale: Oct 17, 1991
Page Count: 96 pages
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
ISBN-13: 9780316817806

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Donald Stokes

About the Author

Donald and Lillian Stokes are widely recognized as America’s foremost authorities on birds and nature. Their books include the bestselling Stokes Field Guide to the Birds of North America, the Stokes Field Guide to Birds, the Stokes Beginner’s Guide to Birds, the Stokes Nature Guides, and the Stokes Backyard Nature Books. They live in New Hampshire and Florida.

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