Take a Butterfly Under Your Wing
From a spectacular cloud of migrating Monarchs to a vivid Red Admiral lighting on your arm, butterflies take your breath away with their beauty and freshness. In this magnificent book, butterfly expert Rick Mikula shows how you can identify, care for, and raise butterflies in your own back yard so they will grace our earth for all time. Brimming with photos, insights, tips, and a dozen projects, this book is ideal for families, school, community groups, and individuals that want to have fun with butterflies.
Inside you'll learn how to:
- Hold and hand-feed a butterfly
- Grow host plants and nectar plants
- Make butterfly nets and rearing cages
- Identify common and endangered North American butterflies
