Audubon Butterflies Calendar 2012

Butterflies, butterflies everywhere! For America’s growing (and passionate) legions of “butterfliers,” Audubon Butterflies is the next best thing to hik- ing meadow and field with binoculars in hand. Here are hundreds of the world’s butterflies, beautifully photographed in full color. A gorgeous blue Sonoran on fiddleneck flowers. The distinctively patterned Cramer’s Eighty-eight. The aptly named Clearwing. And—you may have to look twice—an amazingly leaflike Brimstone. Plus Painted Ladies, Clippers, Coppers, Hairstreaks, and more. Each month’s spread has a large photograph at the top and smaller images in the grid below. Text by Kenn Kaufman provides a wealth of information about butterfly species, habitats, and lifestyle.