Fully revised and expanded second edition of a ground-breaking book that made the fascinating micro-moth group accessible to the general naturalist.
Key updates to the second edition include:
- addition of c. 300 new species, taking the total covered to more than 1,300
- more than 100 new artworks added to the introduction and colour plate section
- names and species order revised to reflect the latest published taxonomy
- many more common names now included
- all maps replaced with up-to-date species distributions
- new colour photographs throughout, including many that will help with identifying larval stages
- index revised by species name.
Praise for the first edition:
'Here, at long last, is a warm and inviting introduction to the broad subject of British microlepidoptera' - Birdguides
Fully revised and expanded second edition of a ground-breaking book that made the fascinating micro-moth group accessible to the general naturalist
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The fully revised and expanded second edition of the ground-breaking book that made the fascinating micro-moth group accessible to the general naturalist.
Phil Sterling is a conservationist, writer and public speaker with particular interest in lesser-known moth species. He holds an MA (Oxon) in Zoology and his DPhil (Oxon) was on the ecology and biological control of the Brown-tail Moth. He is a Fellow of the Royal Entomological Society, and a member of the British Entomological and Natural History Society and British Ecological Society. He's worked in conservation for 35 years and is currently at Butterfly Conservation where he works on a UK-wide project to improve habitat for wildlife in the built environment.
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Mark Parsons has been recording moths since 1976, and has contributed many articles to entomological journals, and written papers and publications on Lepidoptera. He has a BSc in Biology, is a Fellow of the Royal Entomological Society and is a member of the British Entomological and Natural History Society and the Societas Europae Lepidopterologica. He's worked as an entomologist for the Nature Conservancy Council and the Joint Nature Conservation Committee, as well as a lepidopterist at the Natural History Museum. Since 1999, he has worked for Butterfly Conservation, overseeing their moth conservation efforts.
Richard Lewington is an acknowledged leader in the field of insect illustration. His meticulous paintings are the mainstay of many of the modern classics of field-guide art, including The Butterflies of Britain and Ireland, Guide to Garden Wildlife and Field Guide to the Bees of Great Britain and Ireland. 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.
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