Micro-moth Field Tips: A Guide to Finding the Early Stages
Posted: Tue Feb 28, 2017 8:38 pm
Micro-moth Field Tips: A Guide to Finding the Early Stages in Lancashire and Cheshire:
The eagle-eyed may have spotted in Steve Palmer's Lancashire Micro-moth Newsletter, a mention of the book Ben Smart is writing. It is now very roughly complete. Steve is kindly proof-reading and hopefully it will be published later this year.
The provisional title is "Micro-moth Field Tips: A Guide to Finding the Early Stages in Lancashire and Cheshire".
It is a 216-page guide to locating the early stages of our micro-moths by searching for their feeding signs, leaf-mines and larvae.
The book provides detailed advice on the life-cycles of over 170 species, and contains over 600 photos illustrating the early stages of over 300 species found within Lancashire and Cheshire, (and of course also found elsewhere within the rest of the country).
Below are a couple of sample pages (not proof-read yet !) and the cover. The Lancashire and Cheshire Fauna Society and Lancashire Butterfly Conservation have kindly agreed to fund the publication, but Ben would like some idea of the interest out there. If you find the proposed book interesting and think you may like to have a copy can you please let Ben know via e-mail on: cath.ben@btinternet.com - It will help Ben decide how many copies to print.
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The eagle-eyed may have spotted in Steve Palmer's Lancashire Micro-moth Newsletter, a mention of the book Ben Smart is writing. It is now very roughly complete. Steve is kindly proof-reading and hopefully it will be published later this year.
The provisional title is "Micro-moth Field Tips: A Guide to Finding the Early Stages in Lancashire and Cheshire".
It is a 216-page guide to locating the early stages of our micro-moths by searching for their feeding signs, leaf-mines and larvae.
The book provides detailed advice on the life-cycles of over 170 species, and contains over 600 photos illustrating the early stages of over 300 species found within Lancashire and Cheshire, (and of course also found elsewhere within the rest of the country).
Below are a couple of sample pages (not proof-read yet !) and the cover. The Lancashire and Cheshire Fauna Society and Lancashire Butterfly Conservation have kindly agreed to fund the publication, but Ben would like some idea of the interest out there. If you find the proposed book interesting and think you may like to have a copy can you please let Ben know via e-mail on: cath.ben@btinternet.com - It will help Ben decide how many copies to print.
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