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Field Guide to Butterflies of South Africa

by Steve Woodhall, Struik Nature

R250 in bookstores

“The caterpillar does all the work, but the butterfly gets all the publicity,”comedian George Carlin once remarked. Local butterflies can’t ask for better publicity than the second edition of this amazing guide.

Steve Woodhall is a former President of the Lepidopterists’ Society of Africa and he also wrote the first edition in 2005. That was during the early days of digital photography, which revolutionised the way butterflies were documented in their natural habitat. The photography is even better 15 years later, and

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