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itchydogimages and SINOBUG. These include a large, James has spent considerable time in the field,
diverse, and spectacular collection of mostly accumulating several thousand records for the host
unidentified Limacodidae caterpillar images. plants of mostly Rocky Mountain butterflies and more
Contributions: pages 51, 58, 74, 178, 195–6, 209, than 40,000 records of butterflies visiting flowers
214, 222–3, 229, 243, 257, 272, 274, 278, 300, (recently published by the Gillette Museum at Colorado
306–7, 309, 310, 312, 314, 316–17, 319, 479, 505, State University). His collection also includes thousands
518, 521, 541, 550, 585, 587, 638 of photographs of eggs, larvae, pupae, and adults.
Contributions: pages 59, 68, 71, 103, 108, 112, 136,
sally morgan is an author and photographer. 194, 217, 230, 261, 268
A fascination with the natural world led her to study
biological sciences at Cambridge University, United andrei sourakov developed a strong interest
Kingdom. She has written more than 250 books, in Lepidoptera at the age of ten and later pursued
covering a wide range of topics on natural history and undergraduate studies in Moscow, Russia. In 1997, he
the environment, and has traveled the world in her obtained his PhD from the University of Florida, United
search of the exotic and unusual to photograph and States. He currently works at the McGuire Center for
feature. Sally owns an organic farm in the county of Lepidoptera and Biodiversity in the Florida Museum of
Somerset, England, which has an impressive diversity Natural History, home to one of the largest Lepidoptera 655
of lepidopterans, including one-third of all the species collections in the world. Andrei is the author or
on the British butterfly list. coauthor of more than 100 scientific and popular
Contributions: pages 38, 43, 52–3, 55, 63, 65, 77, 96, articles on the taxonomy and biology of butterflies and
101, 106, 120, 126–7, 144, 146, 156, 160–1, 163, moths. He also teaches a course entitled “Insects and
171–2, 175, 177, 182, 187–8, 198, 200–2, 206, 208, Plants” and studies interactions between caterpillars
224, 245, 247, 250–1, 253, 258, 270, 288, 292, 294, and their host plants.
313, 315, 320–5, 329, 331, 339, 340–1, 345, 347–9, Contributions: pages 39, 41, 48–9, 62, 93, 115, 154,
351, 353–9, 362, 366, 373, 391, 398, 419, 428–30, 168, 183, 232, 249, 254, 286, 289, 297, 302, 304,
438, 443, 450, 453, 455, 457, 461, 467, 472, 480–7, 308, 318, 327, 330, 360, 365, 367, 378, 395, 451,
489–1, 493–4, 496–7, 500–3, 506–7, 509–10, 514, 458, 488, 492, 495, 498–9, 508, 513, 547, 560, 570,
516, 520, 522, 525–6, 531, 533–6, 538, 540, 542, 581, 583–4, 618–19, 634, 637
544, 555–6, 561, 564, 566–8, 572–3, 575, 577, 579,
582, 586, 588–91, 593, 600, 603–4, 607–8, 610–12, martin townsend is a freelance professional
614, 627–30 entomologist and invertebrate ecologist, who has been
fascinated with moths and butterflies since the age of
tony (a. r.) pittaway grew up in several ten. He has carried out a wide variety of field surveys in
European countries, enjoying their rich diversity of the United Kingdom for conservation, government,
insects, and developed an early interest in butterflies research, and commercial bodies and agencies. He is
and hawkmoths, especially at their immature stages. coauthor of the Field Guide to the Moths of Great Britain
He gained an MSc and PhD in entomology at Imperial and Ireland, the Concise Guide to the Moths of Great
College, London, England. Tony has worked as an Britain and Ireland, and British and Irish Moths. He has
entomologist in the Middle East and written or also written more than 100 journal articles and reports.
coauthored three books and a number of scientific Contributions: pages 287, 290–1, 299, 328, 332–8,
papers on butterflies, hawkmoths, and dragonflies, 342–4, 346, 474, 517, 519, 528–30, 545–6, 548–9,
including Insects of Eastern Arabia and The Hawkmoths 563, 594–9, 601, 605–6, 609, 615–17, 620, 622–6,
of the Western Palaearctic. Between traveling in 633, 635–6, 639
search of specimens and images, and maintaining
websites on the Saturniidae and Sphingidae of the kirby wolfe is a Research Associate of the Natural
Palaearctic region, he is Data Architect at the Centre History Museum of Los Angeles County, California, and
for Agriculture and Biosciences International (CABI) of the McGuire Center for Lepidoptera and Biodiversity
in the United Kingdom.
in the Florida Museum of Natural History. He has spent
Contributions: pages 433–4, 439, 445, 448, 452, 454, more than 30 years photographing moths and their
460, 470, 473, 477 immature stages and is the author or coauthor of a
number of books and research articles on insect
james a. scott received a PhD in entomology behavior and development.
from the University of California, Berkeley, after Contributions: pages 361, 363–4, 368, 371–2, 375–7,
researching butterfly behavior. He has since published 379–82, 384, 387–90, 392–4, 397, 399–401, 403–4,
several books on butterflies, including Butterflies of 406–12, 414–15, 420–7, 431–2
North America: a Field Guide and Natural History.