Butterflies of East Africa

by Steve Collins, Dino J. Martins

Overview

Butterflies are among the most familiar and popular of all the insects, and butterfly watching makes an absorbing hobby. This handy, compact guide serves as an introduction to East Africa’s amazing butterfly diversity. It introduces 246 of the more common, spectacular and interesting species found in Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, Rwanda and Burundi.
Each species account features concise text describing key identification features, habits, habitat and larval food plants; full-color photographs; and distribution maps showing each butterfly’s range.

This handy guide should prove invaluable to beginners and more experienced butterfly
enthusiasts alike.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781775842422
Publisher:	Penguin Random House South Africa
Publication date:	07/27/2016
Series:	Pocket Guides
Pages:	160
Product dimensions:	4.10(w) x 7.00(h) x 0.10(d)

About the Author

Steve Collins is a biologist who has worked in or visited over 50 African countries and the surrounding islands. In 1996, he founded the African Butterfly Research Institute (ABRI). He has authored over 100 scientific papers on African butterflies and has written several books on the subject.

Dino J. Martins, an entomologist and evolutionary biologist, is widely known as East Africa’s ‘Dudu Man’ (Dudu is the Swahili word for insect). Dr Martins holds a PhD in Organismic and Evolutionary Biology from Harvard University. He is a prolific writer and is currently Chair of the Insect Committee of Nature Kenya, and The East Africa Natural History Society and is winner of the 2015 Whitley Gold Award for conservation.