[Leps-l] new pocket guide to common Kansas butterflies

Jim Mason jim at gpnc.org
Fri Jun 8 10:34:53 EDT 2012


I have authored a popular guide to the more common Kansas butterflies.  A
brief review by reporter Beccy Tanner appeared in today's Wichita Eagle.
Here is the text and the URL.  There is a photo of the cover (featuring a
Regal Fritillary) in the online edition.  I'll be adapting the guide for the
GPNC website soon and will let the list know when that is accomplished.

 

Jim Mason, Naturalist

Jim at gpnc.org

Great Plains Nature Center

6232 E. 29th Street North

Wichita, KS 67220-2200

316-683-5499 x103 - voice

316-688-9555 - fax

www.gpnc.org

 

 

Mourning Cloak. Sleepy Orange. American Snout. And, Great Spangled
Fritillary.

Go anywhere in the natural state of Kansas and you are likely to see them:
butterflies flitting from one wildflower to another.

Ever wonder what that black butterfly with the white-and-blue dots flitting
among the fennel and carrot row in your garden is called?

Or the fastest way to tell the difference between a butterfly and a moth?

Jim Mason's latest book, "A Pocket Guide to Common Kansas Butterflies,"
answers it all.

The guide features 61 of the most common butterfly species found in Kansas.
The book, with brightly colored pictures telling the range, flight times and
where you can find each species of butterfly, is the latest in an ongoing
series published by the Great Plains Nature Center.

The center also has printed books on waterbirds, snakes, mammals, and
wildflower and grasses. All are free and available to the public.

If you want them mailed to you, the cost is $3. Mail checks payable to the
GPNC and send your order to: Owl's Nest Gift Shop, Great Plains Nature
Center, 6232 E. 29th St. North, Wichita, KS 67220.

By the way, that black butterfly with the blue dots is the black
swallowtail.

And as for a quick way to tell the difference between butterflies and moths?
It's all in the antennae, Mason said. Butterflies have knobby antennas.

"I got introduced to wildflower gardening back in the 1980s," said Mason,
naturalist at the Great Plains Nature Center. "I began noticing things -
such as certain caterpillars grew up on certain plants. I came to appreciate
butterflies and their usage with wildflowers. Without the wildflowers, they
wouldn't be here."

The book will be free to Great Plains Nature Center visitors.

Read more here:
http://www.kansas.com/2012/06/07/2364481/butterfly-handbook-covers-kansas.ht
ml#storylink=misearch#storylink=cpy 

 

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