Contents include:
- Acknowledgements
- Preface - Michael Viney
- Introduction to the book
(What are butterflies and moths?
Life cycle of butterflies and moths
Why the complicated patterns?
Identifying butterflies and moths)
- Species descriptions: 120+ butterflies and moths, with large-scale images of each species, descriptions of life cycles, foodplants, defense mechanisms, and sometimes the travails in finding and identifying them!
- Habitats of butterflies and moths (an analysis of the foodplants of the species included - 'mapped' onto the habitats of Connemara)
- The importance of reporting species
- Photographing butterflies and moths
- References and useful sources
- Acknowledgements
- Preface - Michael Viney
- Introduction to the book
- "Of butterflies and moths":
For example: (What are butterflies and moths?
Life cycle of butterflies and moths
Why the complicated patterns?
Identifying butterflies and moths)
Female Silver-washed Fritillary,
freshly emerged from chrysalis
- Species descriptions: 120+ butterflies and moths, with large-scale images of each species, descriptions of life cycles, foodplants, defense mechanisms, and sometimes the travails in finding and identifying them!
Swallow-tailed moth
- Habitats of butterflies and moths (an analysis of the foodplants of the species included - 'mapped' onto the habitats of Connemara)
- The importance of reporting species
- Photographing butterflies and moths
- References and useful sources
A mating pair of Common Blue butterflies