It didn’t take long for news of the forthcoming publication by Little Toller Books of Peter Marren’s “Emperors, Admirals and Chimney-Sweepers; the Naming of Butterflies and Moths” to spread across the land like a flock of migrating Monarchs.
Lepidopterists rejoice! Seabrooke Leckie has proclaimed tidings of great entomological joy on her Facebook and Twitter profiles: she has signed a contract to create a Peterson Field Guide to Moths of WESTERN North America.
Long had we waited… left to making the best guesses we could given whatever references we could find. Never really having the opportunity simply to sit and study the astonishing varieties of species, to learn the geographic locations where they might be found, or to improve our field skills.
Then, in 2012, Seabrooke Leckie and David Beadle gave us hope
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.