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Amazon Insects - A Photo Guide  •  James L. Castner   • FIELD GUIDE  •  Spectacular, weird, and commonly encountered bugs, butterflies, katydids, leafhoppers, ants, bees, spiders and other insects of the Amazon basin. Geared for the traveler, this handy book features 200 color photographs and accompanying text. (AMZ63, $20.00)
 
 
A Birder's Bug Book  •  Gilbert Waldbauer   • NATURAL HISTORY  •  A charming professor of entomology discusses who is eating whom. (NAT12, $16.95)
 
 
Butterflies in Flight  •  Roger Camp   • ART & ARCHITECTURE  •  A collection of hyperreal photographs of butterflies. Camp, who collected butterflies from around the world for this handsome art book, sets the images against a black background. (NAT58, $27.50)
 
 
Chasing Monarchs, A Migration with the Butterflies of Passage  •  Robert Michael Pyle   • NATURAL HISTORY  •  A memoir of Lepidoptery, combing the entomologist-author's considerable knowledge of butterflies and their biology with a rambling road trip from British Columbia through the Southwest to Mexico. (MEX62, $14.00)
 
 
Four Wings and a Prayer, Caught in the Mystery of the Monarch Butterfly  •  Sue Halpern   • NATURAL HISTORY  •  A lyrical account of travels and encounters on the trail of the migrating monarch. Halpern who weavers her own experiences with science, interviews and commentary, includes a section on the butterfly wintering grounds in Mexico. (NAT52, $13.00)
 
 
Insects Through the Seasons  •  Gilbert Waldbauer   • NATURAL HISTORY  •  A good old fashioned natural history with amazing stories of insect behavior. (NAT13, $14.95)
 
 
Millions of Monarchs, Bunches of Beetles: How Bugs Find Strength in Numbers  •  Gilbert Waldbauer   • SCIENCE  •  A fascinating collection of essays by a spirited entomologist on the occasional gathering of monarchs, ladybugs, locusts and other not-so-social insects. Delightful and instructive. (BUG10, $16.95)
 
 
Monarchs  •  Kathryn Lasky  •  Christopher Knight   • NATURAL HISTORY • MIDDLE READERS (Age 9-12)  •  An introduction to the monarch butterfly, written for middle school age children. (BST51, $12.00)
 
 
 




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