Backyard Butterflies of the Lowcountry

Part field guide, part ecological study, this handbook introduces you to some of the caterpillars and butterflies you’re most likely to find in your Lowcountry backyard.With over 500 full-color photographs, you’ll learn about their identifying marks and stages of their life cycles, as well as what you could plant to attract them to your yard. It includes a large sample of the butterflies of the South Carolina Coast, but many of these butterflies have a much wider range than just South Carolina. The author begins with a general introduction to Lepidoptera, their life cycle, and many of the amazing features and adaptations of butterflies, including aposemitism, camouflage, concealment, deception, mimicry and offensive tastes and smells. Includes individual species accounts of many of the most common butterflies found in South Carolina. swallowtails (giant, Palamedes, black, tiger, and pipeline), sulfurs (cloudless sulfur, sleepy orange, little yellow, and falcate orangetip), brushfoots