This is the cover of the first book about butterflies, the start of each section of both books look similar
This is the first section. It comes after the introduction, forwards and so on. This section explains what exactly a butterfly is. From a what exacly a butterfly is to their anatomy and more.
This section is about how butterflies are classified. This section explains how all life is classified into kindgoms, families, genus and so on. This section also has information on how every family of butterflies is split up.
To show how butterflies famuilies are classified, I created this to show how the superfamilies of butterflies and subfamilies are split up and this diagram is an easy way of showing this. After I created this, I wrote about each familiy and put a few images of butterflies in these families there too.
This page is part of the anatomy of a butterfly section. It has information on the differences between butterfly eyes and fly eyes.
In this section, it has information on the lifecycle of butterflies, from egg to adult. It shows the differences in vatious butterflies lifecycles and how a butterfly gets to being an adult, which is the hardest part of living for many butterflies.
This page is about butterflies mating. This part has information on how various species attract a mate and about how butterflies mate and why. (The text at the start should read "animal" nor "anime" which has since been corrected.)
I wrote two pages that shows how butterfly wing shapes are in certian groups of butterfly. I did this because, once you know a particular wingshape of a butterfly, even if you don't know exactly what it is, you can find out what family its from based on its wing shapes or colouring.
This section is in the classification section. This part shows information on Apollos, Swallowtails and reletives.
This is the cover to my second book about moths.
This part of the book shows the difference in moth antennae and the difference between moth and butterfly antennae. (The feathered thorn is actually an August thorn and its corrected in book)
This diagram shows the anatomy of a moth. I created this and another using a different image for second diagram.
This page shows various moths eyes up close. This part, I wanted to show how moth eyes look and how they look different from butterfly or other insect eyes.
This section is like the butterfly tree diagram in my first book, but since there are so many moth families, I could not just put thyem on one page, so I split the sections up into "Micro moths" and "macro moths" and each superfamily, I made a tree diagram like this Gelechioidea one and wrote about the superfamily and its subfamily, after the diagram.
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Information on the Books
Cover of Book 1: Introduction to the World of
Butterflies
Cover of Book 2: Introduction to the
World of Moths
I have been working on two books, the covers
above. The first is about butterflies and the second is
about moths. Now I want to firstly say, I am no expert on
butterflies or moths, but I have a passion about them, from
understanding as much as I can about them, protecting them
and photographing them.
These books I am writing, I do because of this passion I
have. I have always been interested in writing a book, but never really
knew what to write about. People do say "write about what you know" so I
am. I started writing the first book on butterflies in 2006, and in 2009
started writing my second book, about moths. The books are in A4
landscape and unless I have large diagrams on the page or its the start
of a section, the page is split up into two parts as you can see from
above images.
I already know there are many books on butterflies and
moths, but many just focus on particular groups of moths and butterflies in
certain locations such as "The butterflies of Europe" which
is about European butterflies or "The Moths of Great Britain and
Ireland" which focuses on macro moths in the UK. I wanted to create
a book that covered the whole of the butterfly world and the same with
moths.
Growing up in Mountstewart, Co Down, Northern Ireland,
it was a good place to study butterflies and moths since its an 1000
acre estate with grassy fields, meadows, various forests both mixed,
deciduous and pine trees and even rivers and a lake with old formal
gardens.
Before I finish the book, some of the
information will change and be modified as I learn some
new things about butterflies and moths. I have used a
lot of references in my work, which I have clearly
stated in the books. Here is just some of the sections
in the books:
Classification: This is
in both books. The classification section basically just
describes in detail how butterflies and moths are
classified and information on a few of the species in
each family. The classification of moths is much greater
in my second book, given to that there is a lot more
moth families than butterfly families.
Lifecycle: This is in
both books. It has information on the egg, caterpillar
and pupae stages, showing various species in each stage
of their life.
Maturity: This is in
both books. It details how adult butterflies and moths
live, feed, mate and die.
Habitats: This is
mostly covered in the first book about butterflies. This
section is about the habitats of butterflies and moths
from Jungles to swamps, from temperate forests to cities
and even bogs and gardens. It will also have information on
conservation of habitats so that not just butterflies
and moths, but other species can survive along with
them.
Predators and deseise:
This is in both books. This section shows what predators
moths and butterflies face and how they defend
themselves against creatures that would eat them.
Photography: This
section is information on photography techniques, how to
photograph butterflies and moths in their natural
habitats. This will have much of my experiences in this
too. This section is important because this is a much
better way of "collecting specimens" than killing them
and setting them, as this is no longer required because
photography can be available to everyone, not just more
advanced or professional people anymore.
That's it for the moment. If or when I
have more to say about the books, I will put it here,
but until then, keep checking back.
