Book - Butterflies of British Columbia

[Cris Guppy or Aud Fischer]

Butterflies of British Columbia, Including Western Alberta, Southern Yukon, the Alaska Panhandle, Washington, Northern Oregon, Northern Idaho, and Northwestern Montana, by Crispin S. Guppy and Jon H. Shepard. Vancouver, BC: UBC Press.

The book "Butterflies of British Columbia" is now available! The official publication date is March 8, 2001 (the date stated in the book is March 1, 2001), for those that track the publication dates of new species and subspecies. The book is lavishly illustrated with over 1,200 colour photographs and over 200 distribution maps, and includes a glossary of butterfly terms and a bibliography of over 750 citations.

The Butterflies of British Columbia provides the most complete coverage of species and subspecies of any North American regional or continental butterfly book; it covers 187 species and 264 subspecies of butterflies, as well as 9 additional hypothetical species; it provides descriptions of identifying features, immature stages, larval foodplants, biology and life history, range and habitat, and conservation status for each species; it describes 11 new subspecies; it includes introductory chapters covering the history, zoogeography, conservation, morphology, ecology, and biology of butterflies in BC and adjacent areas. Each species treatment contains maps of the northwestern North American distribution, colour photographs of adults of all species and subspecies, and flight season graphs. The book includes an extensive general introduction to the study of butterflies, containing chapters on the history of butterfly study in BC, the post-glacial colonization of BC by butterflies, the effects of European colonization on the fauna, butterfly conservation, butterfly gardening, ecology, morphology, and biology. 
Butterflies of British Columbia provides butterfly watchers, naturalists, and biologists with an overview of the fascinating butterfly fauna of BC and adjacent areas. It can be used by naturalists to identify all the butterfly species and subspecies in BC and adjacent areas and includes a wide range of information about both butterflies in general and individual species. There is also much original information in the book that scientists will find invaluable.

For further information on the book, see the follow website (note that the file size of some of the "samples" is quite large):  http://www.ubcpress.ubc.ca/butterfliesbc.html.



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