Life Cycles of British and Irish Butterflies

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Dennis, R.L.H. & Sparks, T.H. (2006) When is a habitat not a habitat? Dramatic resource use changes under differing weather conditions for the butterfly Plebejus argus, Biological Conservation, 129, 291-301.

Bourn, N.A.D. & Thomas, J.A. (1993) The Ecology and Conservation of the Brown Argus Butterfly Aricia Agestis in Britain, Biological Conservation, 63, 67-74.

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Thomas, J.A., Elmes, G.W., Wardlaw, J.C. & Woyciechowski, M. (1989) Host specificity among Maculinea butterflies in Myrmica ant nests, Oecologia, 79, 452-457. Masterman, A. (2012) Changes in Mountain Ringlet Erebia epiphron (Knoch) Habitat with Altitude in Scotland, Associations with Topography and Possible Effects of Climate Warming, Atropos, 47, 43-54. While aimed at the typical butterfly enthusiast, the book's content has been successfully tested by conservation scientists who need to record all stages when measuring the impact of habitat management and climate change. The book also includes recent discoveries that are documented here for the first time. Schoonhoven, L.M., Beerling, E.A.M., Klijnstra, J.W. & Vugt, Y. van (1990) Two related butterfly species avoid oviposition near each other’s eggs, Experientia, 46, 526-528. Stace, C. (2010) New Flora of the British Isles, 3rd edition. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.

British & Irish Butterfly Rarities is the first book to focus solely on those butterfly species regarded as extinctions, rare migrants or introductions. There are 59 butterfly species that are considered resident or regular migrants to Britain and Ireland, yet there are another 63 species whose story deserves to be told.

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