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The Moth Book
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A guide to the moths of North America with 48 full color plates and 263 black and white illustrations.
A guide to the moths of North America with 48 full color plates and 263 black and white illustrations.
479 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1903
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About the author
William J. Holland
58 booksAKA William Jacob Holland.
William Jacob Holland was the eighth Chancellor of the University of Pittsburgh (1891–1901) and Director of the Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh. He was an accomplished zoologist and paleontologist, as well as an ordained Presbyterian minister.
Holland appears to have been a difficult man to work with. Despite maintaining a prime interest in lepidoptery, he did manage to train himself as a competent paleontologist when the directorship of the Carnegie Museum was thrust upon him. As director of the Carnegie Museums, Holland achieved international renown for supervising the mounting of several casts of the sauropod dinosaur Diplodocus, a donation by Carnegie to natural history museums throughout Europe.
Holland was America's great popularizer of butterflies and moths in the first half of the twentieth century. Holland's The Butterfly Book (1898) and The Moth Book (1903) are both still widely used. Holland donated his private collection exceeding 250,000 specimens to the Carnegie Museum .
William Jacob Holland was the eighth Chancellor of the University of Pittsburgh (1891–1901) and Director of the Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh. He was an accomplished zoologist and paleontologist, as well as an ordained Presbyterian minister.
Holland appears to have been a difficult man to work with. Despite maintaining a prime interest in lepidoptery, he did manage to train himself as a competent paleontologist when the directorship of the Carnegie Museum was thrust upon him. As director of the Carnegie Museums, Holland achieved international renown for supervising the mounting of several casts of the sauropod dinosaur Diplodocus, a donation by Carnegie to natural history museums throughout Europe.
Holland was America's great popularizer of butterflies and moths in the first half of the twentieth century. Holland's The Butterfly Book (1898) and The Moth Book (1903) are both still widely used. Holland donated his private collection exceeding 250,000 specimens to the Carnegie Museum .
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January 25, 2023
Great book, very informative and detailed. I haven't yet found another really good moth ID book for N. America. It's even harder to find a complete guide for moth and/or butterfly caterpillars. This book is a wonderful resource for any budding moth (or butterfly) lover. It has a lot of information on classification, food plants, life cycle, behavior, and even techniques for surveying specimens that would be easy to implement in your own back yard, local woods, etc!
Regarding this book, if this is your only source for ID: The photographs can be super hard to navigate and use for identification because of the age of the photography used. The colors and details are often washed out and can be unclear or misleading. It is nice to see the size difference and comparison between species that this method of photography offers, but it would be much more usable if the images were up to date and (individually organized by species) with all the glorious technology now available!
I used this book throughout 2022 for IDing as a hobby but did need to combine it with other resources. Using this book alone for ID was a very time-consuming task, and I do not recommend doing it that way. This book became a much better resource after I shifted to using this book as a starting point for ID. I combined this book with the iNaturalist app most of the time.
This book is not a huge resource for moth caterpillar ID.
Regarding this book, if this is your only source for ID: The photographs can be super hard to navigate and use for identification because of the age of the photography used. The colors and details are often washed out and can be unclear or misleading. It is nice to see the size difference and comparison between species that this method of photography offers, but it would be much more usable if the images were up to date and (individually organized by species) with all the glorious technology now available!
I used this book throughout 2022 for IDing as a hobby but did need to combine it with other resources. Using this book alone for ID was a very time-consuming task, and I do not recommend doing it that way. This book became a much better resource after I shifted to using this book as a starting point for ID. I combined this book with the iNaturalist app most of the time.
This book is not a huge resource for moth caterpillar ID.
May 23, 2019
La polilla memes son importante bröther.
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