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Butterfly Gardening: Creating Summer Magic in Your Garden

Author(s): Xerces Society and Smithsonian Institution

Year: 1998

Publisher: Sierra Club Books

ISBN: 0871569752

Subject: Wildlife

Comments: This new edition of the classic handbook describes how to attract butterflies and other beneficial and beautiful insects to your garden. Butterfly Gardening presents everything the gardener needs to know to create intricate, small-scale ecosystems in an urban or suburban setting that can substitute for the rapidly vanishing habitats that are essential to the survival of butterflies. Contributors to this volume include Miriam Rothschild, an eminent entomologist, avid butterfly gardener, and expert in wildflower conservation, who describes the life cycle of butterflies, how and what they see, and how this relates to "gardening with butterflies." Landscape architect Mary Booth provides imaginative garden designs and easy-to-follow directions for designing and planting. Edward S. Ross, pioneer of close-up nature photography, discusses observing and photographing butterflies (Amazon).

Last Updated: 2008-02-09