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List Price: £32.95
Our Price: £21.74
Author:
Philip J. DeVries
By Princeton University Press
 A wonderful book, 2005-11-15
The diversity of life in the tropics is such that a tome like this covers just three of families of butterflies, not the whole lepidopteran fauna as other reviewers have pointed out. Nevertheless, these three are both important and conspicuous, including some of the most beautiful and sought after of tropical butterflies such as the Morphos, Owl Butterflies and Heliconiids. And, because of the paucity of literature for this region, this guide will prove useful well beyond the frontiers of Costa Rica where many of the same genera and even species occur - I use it all the time in Venezuela for example.The photographic plates and illustrations are superb and the text is a delight with a host of information on natural history as well as identification. Definitely a must for the entomologist and serious naturalist.
List Price: £29.50
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Author:
Jane Nicholas
By Sally Milner Publishing Pty Ltd
THE BEETLE CLLECTION, 2005-05-03
I first saw this book at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London I knew I had to have it then and put it into my wish list.
My it's absolutely stuffed; it's like a museum,
In fact its, is its own museum, the fine museum of beetles and all there background history.
On the books initial opening, I had visions of a grandmother in her garden-embroidering beetles while explaining their merits to her grand children.One can tell that the author Jane got completely involved in this book, in fact maybe taken over. She has gone on to produce a huge variety of hand-sewn beetles, in different techniques. Which are just gorgeous; it's a wonderful inspiration.
The hand embroidery instructions are limited, but that didn't stop me enthusing over her work.
And as my experience of hand embroidery, particularly stump work is poor; I now need to purchase a simple basic book.
I can't wait to get started on producing my own little beetle collection and also purchasing Jane's "Dragonfly" book, which will now go into the wish list
List Price: £29.99
Our Price: £24.03
Author:
Mike Service
By Cambridge University Press
No Entomology Student should be without it, 2008-10-08
An excellent book, we have 18 copies in our Library (as well as the author on occasion) very well used and regarded book!
List Price: £73.00
Our Price: £57.56
By Springer
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