Suggested Websites
Iowa Butterfly List Serve. Subscribe at IA_BTRFLY-subscribe@yahoogroups.com

The Butterfly Website.

Butterflies of North America.

The Lepidopterists' Society.

Selected Examples of Lepidopteran Websites.

Xerces Society

Young Entomologists' Society.

Suggested Books

Glassberg, Jeffery. Butterflies Through Binoculars, The East. NewYork: Oxford University Press, 1999.

Halpern, Sue. Four Wings and a Prayer: Caught in the Mystery of the Monarch Migration, New York: Pantheon Books, 2001.

Heitzman, J. Richard and Joan E. Butterflies and Moths of Missouri. Jefferson City, MO: Missouri Dept of Conservation, 1987.

Kirby, Peter. Royal Society for Protecting Birds. Habitat Management for Invertebrates: A Practical Handbook. A. & C. Black, 1993. ISBN: 0903138557

Opler, Paul A. and Vichai Malikul. Eastern Butterflies. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1998.

Pyle, Robert M. The Audubon Society Handbook for Butterfly Watchers. Macmillan Library - Reference, 1984. ISBN: 0684181517

Pyle, Robert M. 1999. Chasing Monarchs: Migrating with the Butterflies of Passage. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1999.

Stokes, Donald. Guide to Observing Insect Lives. Little, Brown & Company, 1984. ISBN: 0316817279

Winter, William D. Basic Techniques for Observing and Studying Moths and Butterflies, 2000. The Lepidopterists Society, Natural History Museum, 900 Exposition Blvd. Los Angeles, CA 90007-4057

Xerces Society. Butterfly Gardening. Sierra Club Books, 1998. ISBN:0871569752

Iowa's Butterflies Article
Life stages of Iowa's butterflies
How to manage habitat for butterflies

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