Title Moths in your pocket : a guide to the Saturn and Sphinx moths of the Upper Midwest / Jim Durbin, Frank Olsen, and Tom Jantscher

Published [Place of publication not identified] : University of Iowa Press, [2015] ©2015

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Description 1 online resource Series Bur Oak guide Bur Oak guide. Summary This welcome addition to Iowa's popular series of laminated guides-the twenty-seventh in the series-illustrates fifty-one species commonly found in the Upper Midwest states of Illinois, Iowa, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio, and Wisconsin. The Saturniid, or Giant Silk moths, are well named. Their large size-up to 6.5 inches for the cecropia moth-and the soft silky browns, greens, and oranges of their wings are unforgettable when they appear at a lighted window at night. Equally well named are the Sphinx or Hawk moths, important pollinators that hover like hummingbirds when necta Notes English Vendor-supplied metadata Subject Moths -- Middle West -- Identification Sphingidae -- Middle West -- Identification Sphingidae -- Identification SCIENCE -- Life Sciences -- Zoology -- General. NATURE -- General. Moths Sphingidae Middle West Genre/Form Guidebooks Field guides Form Electronic book Author Olsen, Frank Jantscher, Tom ISBN 9781609383060 1609383060

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