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    His Imperial Majesty : A Natural History of the Purple Emperor. (2020)
    London :Bloomsbury Publishing Plc,
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    Keywords: Purple emperor butterfly-Great Britain. ; Electronic books.
    Type of Medium: Online Resource
    Pages: 1 online resource (425 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    ISBN: 9781472950147
    URL: https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/geomar/detail.action?docID=6207769
    DDC: 595.789
    Language: English
    Note: Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Foreword -- Introduction: Adrift on the wind -- Chapter 1: A glorious history -- Chapter 2: The modern era -- Chapter 3: The Purple Empire -- Chapter 4: Introduction to the adult stage -- Chapter 5: Beauty as a weapon: the male Purple Emperor -- Chapter 6: The Empress: a life apart -- Chapter 7: Looking for Purple Emperors -- Chapter 8: Habitats and breeding grounds -- Chapter 9: Sallow identification and preferences: a veritable nightmare -- Chapter 10: Eggs and late summer larvae -- Chapter 11: Hibernation and the winter months -- Chapter 12: Spring larvae and the pupal stage -- Chapter 13: Adventures with remarkable caterpillars -- The soul of Adonais -- Number 198 -- The tale of Raymond -- Alastair Cook -- The other side of the coin -- Chapter 14: Looking for Purple Emperor eggs and larvae -- Chapter 15: The Purple land that England gained -- Chapter 16: Conservation issues -- Chapter 17: The future -- Appendix: The history and current status of the Purple Emperor, by region and county -- Glossary -- References and further reading -- References: County butterfly books and reports -- Epilogue -- Acknowledgements -- Index of species and scientific names -- General index.
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    In Pursuit of Butterflies : A Fifty-Year Affair. (2016)
    London :Bloomsbury Publishing Plc,
    Details
    Keywords: Butterfly watching-Great Britain. ; Electronic books.
    Type of Medium: Online Resource
    Pages: 1 online resource (381 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    ISBN: 9781472924513
    URL: https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/geomar/detail.action?docID=5223842
    DDC: 595.789092
    Language: English
    Note: Cover-Page -- Half-Title -- A Note on the Author -- Dedication -- Title -- Butterflying heartlands -- Contents -- Foreword -- Introduction -- 1 Starting out -- 2 Laudator temporis acti -- 3 Escape to the woods -- 4 Rebellion -- 5 Into the green -- A digression, into names -- 6 Desperately seeking Rima -- 7 Walden -- 8 The long hot summer of 1976 -- 9 The legacy of 1976 -- Alice Holt Forest -- 10 Out of the seventies -- Winter -- 11 In and out of war: the early 1980s -- Noar Hill -- 12 The return of the wanderer -- 13 Nineteen eighty-four and all that -- 14 A time of discovery -- Autumn -- 15 High-blown years: the Great Storm and afterwards -- 16 Paradise regained: the great summer of 1989 -- Spring -- 17 Spring perfected -- 18 Moving on -- 19 High adventures in the mid-1990s -- The New Forest -- 20 Summer of the Painted Lady -- 21 Leaving the nineties -- 22 Time out of time -- 23 The Emperor's return -- 24 Hairstreaks to the fore -- Some Cotswold places -- 25 Of Iris and Adonis -- 26 A fall from grace -- Summer -- 27 A tale of two butterflies -- 28 Adventures with caterpillars -- Savernake Forest -- 29 It rained … -- 30 Fifty years on -- Towards some meaning -- Afterword: On Marlpost Road -- Butterflies of the year -- Bibliography -- List of illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Index of butterfly species -- General index -- Plates -- Copyright.
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