ONE of my clearest memories of fieldwork in Costa Rica is the diversity of moths that a simple lamp would attract. A walk through the forest would reveal equally magnificent diversity among their larvae, the caterpillars. This book is about them. You鈥檒l even find images of caterpillars that mimic the heads of snakes. The pictures are backed up by painstaking ecological research that makes sense of the exuberance and vibrancy. This is a treasure trove of natural history that should remind conservationists what we are doing this for.
100 Caterpillars: Portraits from the tropical forests of Costa Rica
Harvard University Press
