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100 Caterpillars: Portraits from the Tropical Forests of Costa Rica
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Product Description: Every bright monarch butterfly or striking luna moth started out in a far subtler form of nature's mosaic, a humble caterpillar. It is this early stage of life--crafted by natural selection into machines for converting a vast array of plant matter, mostly leaves, into the beautiful adults that have captivated humans for millennia--that this book brings to dazzling light...read more
By Winifred Hallwachs and Daniel H. Janzen
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9780674021907 | Belknap Pr, May 31, 2006, cover price $39.95 | About this edition: More than two hundred dazzling full-color photographs capture the life cycles of an array of colorful caterpillar species that can be found throughout the Costa Rican rain forest, accompanied by a study of their behavior, ecology, development into beautiful adult moths and butterflies, and role in their local ecosystem.

Paperback:

9780674034822 | Belknap Pr, November 30, 2009, cover price $29.00 | About this edition: Every bright monarch butterfly or striking luna moth started out in a far subtler form of nature's mosaic, a humble caterpillar.

100 Butterflies and Moths: Portraits from the Tropical Forests of Costa Rica
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Product Description: Walking a forest trail in Costa Rica, a visitor might be struck by the sight of an iridescent blue morpho butterfly fluttering ahead in the filtered daylight, or an enormous silk moth, as magnificently patterned and subtly colored as a Persian carpet, only emerging to fly at night...read more
By Winifred Hallwachs, Daniel H. Janzen and Jeffrey C. Miller
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9780674023345 | Belknap Pr, April 30, 2007, cover price $39.95

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9780674034839 | Belknap Pr, November 30, 2009, cover price $29.00 | About this edition: Walking a forest trail in Costa Rica, a visitor might be struck by the sight of an iridescent blue morpho butterfly fluttering ahead in the filtered daylight, or an enormous silk moth, as magnificently patterned and subtly colored as a Persian carpet, only emerging to fly at night.

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