Costa Rica Butterflies
There are more than 1,000 identified species of butterflies in Costa Rica. This is approximately ten percent of the total identified butterfly species in the world.
Evolving from an ancestral moth-like insect about 60 million years ago, the sheer beauty of their wings, and the metaphorical power of their emergence fully formed from rather unpromising pupae, has made butterflies an object of admiration and inspiration.
Rainforest Publications' Costa Rica Butterflies Fold-out Pocket Field Guide has approximately 120 of the butterfly species, a substantial majority of which are depicted in more than one phase or variation, that you are likely to see on your adventures in Costa Rica.
Illustrations by Jannah Brown, artist, photographer, outdoor enthusiast and world traveler. The illustration of each species on the field guide is accompanied by the name of the species in English, Spanish, and Latin.
On the Rainforest Publications' Costa Rica butterfly field guide, the letters after the English name represent the distribution with Costa Rica:
A: butterflies typically found on the Atlantic side of Costa Rica, below 1500 meters;
P: butterflies typically found on the Pacific side of Costa Rica, below 1500 meters;
M: butterflies typically found in the Costa Rican mountains, above 1500 meters.
There are more than 1,000 identified species of butterflies in Costa Rica. This is approximately ten percent of the total identified butterfly species in the world.
Evolving from an ancestral moth-like insect about 60 million years ago, the sheer beauty of their wings, and the metaphorical power of their emergence fully formed from rather unpromising pupae, has made butterflies an object of admiration and inspiration.
Rainforest Publications' Costa Rica Butterflies Fold-out Pocket Field Guide has approximately 120 of the butterfly species, a substantial majority of which are depicted in more than one phase or variation, that you are likely to see on your adventures in Costa Rica.
Illustrations by Jannah Brown, artist, photographer, outdoor enthusiast and world traveler. The illustration of each species on the field guide is accompanied by the name of the species in English, Spanish, and Latin.
On the Rainforest Publications' Costa Rica butterfly field guide, the letters after the English name represent the distribution with Costa Rica:
A: butterflies typically found on the Atlantic side of Costa Rica, below 1500 meters;
P: butterflies typically found on the Pacific side of Costa Rica, below 1500 meters;
M: butterflies typically found in the Costa Rican mountains, above 1500 meters.
There are more than 1,000 identified species of butterflies in Costa Rica. This is approximately ten percent of the total identified butterfly species in the world.
Evolving from an ancestral moth-like insect about 60 million years ago, the sheer beauty of their wings, and the metaphorical power of their emergence fully formed from rather unpromising pupae, has made butterflies an object of admiration and inspiration.
Rainforest Publications' Costa Rica Butterflies Fold-out Pocket Field Guide has approximately 120 of the butterfly species, a substantial majority of which are depicted in more than one phase or variation, that you are likely to see on your adventures in Costa Rica.
Illustrations by Jannah Brown, artist, photographer, outdoor enthusiast and world traveler. The illustration of each species on the field guide is accompanied by the name of the species in English, Spanish, and Latin.
On the Rainforest Publications' Costa Rica butterfly field guide, the letters after the English name represent the distribution with Costa Rica:
A: butterflies typically found on the Atlantic side of Costa Rica, below 1500 meters;
P: butterflies typically found on the Pacific side of Costa Rica, below 1500 meters;
M: butterflies typically found in the Costa Rican mountains, above 1500 meters.