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BUTTERFLIES OF THE LOWER RIO GRANDE VALLEY

Have you ever picked up a field guide or road trip book and felt an immediate need to go and jump in the car and head for the area being described? If so, you are going to love this new book by Roland Wauer. Butterflies of the Lower Rio Grande is a full-color guide to the hundreds of varieties of butterflies that can be found in the southern Texas counties of Starr, Hidalgo, and Cameron near the Gulf of Mexico. According to the author, this region is only one of two semitropical regions of the continental United States and is host to thousands of varieties of butterflies, birds and animals. In my road trips, I have always been intrigued whenever I saw migrating butterflies but I had no idea there were so many and that the identification of them was as complex as it is. So far, nearly three hundred species have been found and identified in the lower Rio Grande Valley....[Read more]