Produced in association with the National Trust and with beautiful illustrations, full page and in colour on the right hand side, we are encouraged to spot all of Britain's butterflies with our new pocket-sized guide. All five families of British butterflies are featured - Skippers, Whites and Yellows, Browns, Fritillaries and Aristocrats, Metalmarks, Coppers, Hairstreaks and Blues - as well as five day-flying moths that are just as colourful and striking as their butterfly cousins like the Burnet moth with thick black bodies and unusually narrow red and black wings. Children love finding the straw-coloured cocoons fixed high on sturdy dead stems. Today butterflies are the second most popular group amongst wildlife enthusiasts after birds, not bad considering that we have only about 60 resident species. Here is the beautiful Painted Lady, Small Tortoiseshell, Pearl-bordered Fritillary, Marbled White, Speckled Wood and more, and often there are two separate views with wings open and wings closed helping the reader to identify a specific butterfly. When the second view is of a female butterfly it has been noted in the text. 112pp, colour illus.
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