Table of Contents

Contents include:

Introduction

Chapter One: Butterfly Species and Anatomy

Chapter Two: Moth Species and Anatomy

Chapter Three: Habitats
Butterflies and moths live in a wide variety of habitats: tropical forest, grasslands, sand dunes, coastlines, mangroves and mountains, to name a few. Many of these are occupied because of the particular foods they offer the insects. Butterflies and moths adapt to survive in these habitats, employing various ingenious self-defence mechanisms. They also contribute to the ecosystem they are part of through pollination.

Chapter Four: Life Cycle
Butterflies and moths have four distinct stages of their life – eggs, caterpillar/larva, pupa and adult – and the transition between each is a sight to behold.

Chapter Five: Behaviour
Members of the Lepidoptera order display numerous fascinating behaviours. This chapter examines their feeding, migration, navigation, communication, breeding and territoriality.

Butterfly species and sub-species discussed to include:
Anna’s Eighty-Eight
Apollo
Arctic fritillary
Banded orange tiger
Blue morpho
Blue tiger
Ceylon rose
Chimaera birdwing
Common blue
Common buckeye
Cracker
Dead leaf
Eastern comma
Elizabethan
Emerald swallowtail
Forest giant owl
Glasswing
Golden Kaiser-i-hind
Helioconius hacale zuleikas
Island marble
Malachite
Map
Monarch
Painted lady
Peacock
Peacock pansy
Piedmont ringlet
Purple emperor
Question mark
Rajah Brooke’s birdwing
Red admiral
Richmond birdwing
Schaus’ swallowtail
Silver-washed fritillary
Silver-studded blue
Spanish festoon
Sylphina angel
Ulysses
Viceroy
Zebra swallowtail

Moth species and sub-species discussed to include:
Atlas
Cecropia
Cinnabar
Comet
Dysphania militaris
Elephant hawk-moth
Emperor
Gallium sphinx
Garden tiger
Giant leopard
Hummingbird hawk-moth
Io
Japanese silk moth
Lime-hawk-moth
Luna
Madagascan moon
Noctuidae
Oleander hawk-moth
Pellucid hawk-moth
Rosy maple
Texas wasp-moth
Uropyia meticulodina
White-lined sphinx

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About the Author

Julianna Photopoulos is a science writer and filmmaker. She has written for various print and online publications including New Scientist, BBC Focus magazine and Nature, and has been involved in a number of natural history documentaries for the BBC and National Geographic. As a biology graduate, she has also worked in genetics and in dolphin and whale research.