Of all the many books that I perused at BirdFair, one that particularly caught and held my attention – perhaps as a result of my affinity to Lepidopterans – was the Field Guide to the Micro-moths of Great Britain & Ireland by Phil Sterling and Mark Parsons with illustrations by Richard Lewington. Published in 2012 by British Wildlife Publishing and distributed by Bloomsbury UK, this handy field guide describes and depicts 1,033 species.
But what especially made me think that this is a book about which I needed to write was a passage I read in it’s introduction, “This guide is for those who simply do not know where to start to identify the apparently bewildering array of smaller moths, as well as those who have already started out on the journey of discovery.”
A sentence better reflecting my own purpose for publishing The Well-read Naturalist – not limited to just small moths, of course, but regarding all natural history – could not be written.
