(We now carry them at the Botanical Gardens at Asheville’s Visitor Center, so come pick one up during our business hours. I can’t tell you how long I’ve pined for a field guide like this. Mickey Hunt ( ) regularly comments on my blog, but I hadn’t met him in person until this week when he dropped off a copy of his new book “ A Pictorial Guide to the Monarch Butterfly Migration over the Southernmost Blue Ridge Parkway.” Today, I’ll tell you about that book along with two other must-haves for butterfly lovers:ġ) “ A Pictorial Guide to the Monarch Butterfly Migration over the Southernmost Blue Ridge Parkway, Fall 2017” by Asheville’s own Mickey Hunt, $9.34 Ģ) “ Monarchs and Milkweed A Migrating Butterfly, a Poisonous Plant, and Their Remarkable Story of Coevolution” by Anurag Agrawal, $29.95 andģ) “ Caterpillars of Eastern North America,” a Princeton Field Guide by David Wagner, $29.95. We’ve seen a record number of caterpillar species this year and have relied heavily on one field guide in particular for ID. Jay, the garden manager, and I have declared 2017 the year of the caterpillar. I took the picture at the Botanical Gardens of Asheville about a month ago. The image above features a cloudless sulpher (Phoebis sennae) caterpillar on its host plant, native wild senna (Senna hebecarpa).
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