Butterflies of Washington

Robert Hardwick has created a comprehensive guide to the butterflies of Washington State. Filled with nearly 800 colorful photographs and detailed descriptions of butterfly species and subspecies, this guide will help readers find and identify Washington’s butterflies. In an easy-to-read format, this guide provides key information about each species including characteristic dorsal and ventral wing surface features of males and females, wingspan measurements, and descriptions of mature larva and pupa. For optimum success with finding these butterflies in the field, photographs of dorsal and ventral surfaces are included as well as information about habitat and distribution ranges, specific locations of existing colonies, primary larval food plants, and times of year of emergence. Second Edition