Charles V. Covell, Jr.
Temporarily out of stock, we'll order it when we receive our next order!
The main revision for this former Peterson Guide is a single page of updated taxonomy. The new foreward by the author explains that financial constraints required them to print the bulk of the book unchanged. With the growing number of naturalists interested in moths, and the quality of the original, that won't be a problem for the serious naturalist, and the curious.
Here's what the new publisher, the Virginia Museum of Natural History has to say, "In North America, north of the Mexican border, there are about 765 species of butterflies; this is approximately equal to the number of birds, if we exclude the accidentals. Moths, their nocturnal cousins, outnumber butterflies 14 to 1 with a total of nearly 10,500 known species. Of this galaxy, over 1300 species are treated in this Field Guide, which has been prepared with such loving care and scholarship by Charles V. Covell, Jr."
Paperback, 4.5 x 7 inches, 495 pages, 76 line drawings, 64 color and black and white plates, originally printed 1984, revised 2005.
