Category Archives: Review

Past Pleasures — Noel Humphrey’s British Butterflies

Posted on January 26, 2023 by Rick

The still-gloomy end of winter, with its short days and cold temperatures, means we can spend time perusing some of the 19th-century lep-works without fear of missing out on what’s happening in the field. With this dispensation in mind, I’ve … Continue reading →

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Butterfly Book Season in Review

Posted on December 21, 2020 by Rick

The 2020 butterfly season was notable for many things, most of them things we’d like to forget! Yet even in this snakebit season there were bright spots, including these new butterfly books — and there’s even time still to do … Continue reading →

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Butterflies of Pennsylvania: A Field Guide

Posted on January 28, 2018 by Rick

Oddly enough, while the U.S. East Coast and Northeast historically have been the nexus of American butterfly observations and field work, few identification guides particular to this region have been produced.  True, there was Glassberg’s early photographic guide to butterflies … Continue reading →

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New Book Available on Louisiana Butterflies

Posted on January 16, 2018 by Rick
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Available for download: Scudder’s Vol 1 (Nymphalidae, 1889)

Posted on March 1, 2015 by Rick

The Biodiversity Heritage Library is dedicated to scanning old natural history volumes and making them available to contemporary readers as PDFs or OCR files. One of the recent additions is Volume 1 (covering Nymphalidae) of The butterflies of the eastern … Continue reading →

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A Tale of Two Field Guides — Illinois and Indiana

Posted on November 22, 2014 by Rick

For many of us, ‘tis the season to give field guides as presents. And 2014 gave me two new field guides to peruse, one (Butterflies of Indiana) that actually came out in 2013, and the new Butterflies of Illinois that … Continue reading →

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Reviews of Glassberg’s New Swift Guide to Butterflies of North America

Posted on November 24, 2012 by Rick

If you’re like me, at the holidays my mind turns to books to give as presents during the Yule season.  With that in mind, I was very interested in these two recent reviews on local listservs of the book by … Continue reading →

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Review: Butterflies of Europe iPhone App

Posted on July 2, 2012 by Rick

This is a long overdue review of a relatively new entry in the iPhone app universe of butterfly guides.  LepLog readers may remember (or can review here) my 2012 review of the app Butterflies of Britain and Ireland (produced under … Continue reading →

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NABA’s Troubled “Butterflies I’ve Seen” Database

Posted on September 12, 2010 by Rick

LepLoggers who record their sightings using the North American Butterfly Association’s Butterflies I’ve Seen (BIS) records database to archive their field trip data have been more than usually frustrated the past few weeks.  Since the middle of August a note … Continue reading →

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Kauffman Review of Mariposa Road

Posted on September 7, 2010 by Rick

Kenn Kauffman reviews Robert Michael Pyle’s new book Mariposa Road in the current issue of Audubon Magazine.  Kauffman writes: “Mariposa Road is not merely a thesis on Lepidoptera, however. It’s a romp through North America’s rich diversity, with the quest … Continue reading →

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