Text and photographs depict butterflies feeding, breeding, and defending themselves in their natural habitats.

Contains "examples of nearly every currently accepted family of the insect group Lepidoptera (moths and butterflies)." Pref. Divided into two sections. Section one consists of 405 color plates. The second section is a dictionary which describes genera and species. Definitions include distribution, size, ecology, references to the plates. See references from common to scientific names are included