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Colour Identification Guide to Moths of the British Isles (Macrolepidoptera)
 
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Colour Identification Guide to Moths of the British Isles (Macrolepidoptera) (Hardcover)

by Bernard Skinner (Author)
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  • Hardcover: 192 pages
  • Publisher: Viking; 2nd Revised edition edition (3 Sep 1998)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0670879789
  • ISBN-13: 978-0670879786
  • Product Dimensions: 24.2 x 19.6 x 3 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 294,455 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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Updated and fully revised, this text provides a guide to colour identification of moths in the British Isles. Over 1600 specimens are illustrated, showing all species, races and better-known forms of the moth.

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3.0 out of 5 stars Still the best, but could have been so much better, 31 Aug 1999
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In some ways this edition is better than the old: more species, better text, a few old errors cleared up. But in many ways the book has got worse: the reproduction in my copy is worse than in the first edition (they still can't do green); the new species are stuck on the end rather than integrated; and there has been no attempt to make the book easier to use. Cross-referring from plates to text is as annoying as ever, and there still isn't any more information alongside the plates; There would have been space to include flight period, food plant and abbreviated range information. But no. This is a case of a publisher taking the easy way out - there's little really to encourage purchasers of the first edition to upgrade.

Skinner's still the best moth field guide for the UK, but looking at other insect field guides - not to mention bird field guides - shows what a wasted opportunity this was.

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20 of 20 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars The number 1 aid to identification of macro moths in the UK., 21 Oct 1998
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This second edition of the definitive i.d. guide to the larger moths of the UK remains the 'bible' for the amateur moth enthusiast. With 43 colour plates depicting around 800 moth species including many variations, it combines (almost) all of the species of macro moths into one convenient volume.

Fourteen years have elapsed since the original edition, so it seems a shame that so little appears to have changed. There is now an extra plate depicting newly discovered species/subspecies, but the original 42 are unchanged.

The text has been updated to reflect new records and range expansion, but little has changed in the text to help identify the difficult species. Very few text figures have been added either.

Although it's nice to see the typographical errors have been fixed from edition 1, it's annoying to see others creeping in (which weren't there originally).

However, despite this, it's still the best book on the subject. Buy it now!

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