www.ukbutterflies.co.uk

This is my first year as a "butterflier" and I have become quite obsessed. I am normally a birder but June and July are very quiet for birds so butterflies seemed to fit in quite nicely. I suppose that as the butterfly season is nearly over I will go back to birds, but what do you all do until next April?

Secondly, and I suppose I should have put this in the book section, I have a couple of ID books (Higgins & Riley and Richard Lewington's little masterpiece) but I am looking for a book that will tell me more about the natural history of British butterflies, their structure, taxonomy, lifecycle etc. Does such a book exist?

Cheers

Robin

Some clues here...

http://www.ukbutterflies.co.uk/phpBB2/v ... .php?t=352

In terms of books and deeper (scientific) detail, including taxonomy, I'd recommend

The Moths and Butterflies of Great Britain and Ireland Volume 7 (1) Hesperiidae to Nymphalidae (the Butterflies)

by Maitland Emmet and John Heath. See

http://www.ukbutterflies.co.uk/books.php

Although you can probably pick it up at a good bookstore since Amazon is quoting 4-6 weeks.

Cheers,

- Pete