Product Description: Butterflies immediately catch our attention with their beautiful wing patterns and colors. They exemplify metamorphosis with the creeping caterpillar transforming into a soaring butterfly. They have also come to be creatures of science, revealing much to biologists about evolution and the ecological processes and historical accidents that have generated the diversity of life on Earth...read more

Looking at one of the most popular of the insect groups, Dick Vane-Wright explores what it means to be a butterfly by looking at the biology and diversity of the major group of day-flying Lepidoptera. The text aims to be an absorbing addition to the bookshelves of both the amateur and professional.