An introduction to the life cycle, food, habitat, and behavior of butterflies shares advice on butterfly observation and conservation, explaining how to design a garden to attract butterflies and offering a color identification guide to twenty common North American butterflies. Original."
Customer Reviews:
Avg. Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0
The Butterfly Book: A kid's guide to Attracting, Raising and keeping Butterflies:
Great book! We have it for the older kids (4th grade up) in the family to learn about butterflies for school science projects and home fun. Easy to read to the younger members of the family with lots of pictures.
Companion to "Butterfly Garden":
Wonderful kids book on "raising" caterpillars. I purchased this to go with the Insectlore Live Butterfly Garden with 5 Butterfly Certificate I also bought from Amazon.com The book enhanced my first butterfly-raising experience... and I'm an adult. The book also describes how to make a container to watch your caterpillars turn into butterflies but I prefer and totally enjoyed my Butterfly Garden.
A how-to and why book for butterflies:
I'll share the review I wrote for The Home School Manual ========
A Kid's Guide to Attracting, Raising, and Keeping Butterflies. In addition to practical information, this attractive, 40-page book has interesting science information. For example, chemical sensors on butterfly feet allow them to "taste" leaves. 21 species are described with the regions of the US and Southern Canada where they may be found. One sentence I disagree with is. "No one knows why the dinosaurs died out. . . ." 1997, from John... more info
