Wings in the Light

Reviews / Votes

"If you build that garden, they will come - the birds, the bees and the butterflies. I have added lots of unruly but fragrant fennel to my beds just for the thrill of watching the stained-glass wings of swallowtails morph from dapper dotted and striped caterpillars. There are innumerable guides to identifying these beauties. WINGS IN THE LIGHT: Wild Butterflies in North America by the photographer and writer David Lee Myers, will make you fall in love first. Myers's assured photographs are beautiful."-Dominique Browning, New York Times Book Review

"Lavish illustrations vary from stunning and artistically arranged photographs to pictures for which most butterfly photographers would hesitate to activate the shutter" -John Tennent, Atropos

"This book is a great introduction to North American butterflies and would appeal to anyone with an interest in butterflies, whether professional or amateur."-Peter Brown, Bulletin of the Amateur Entomologists' Society

"It would be wrong to suggest that this is just a magnificent picture book. The text, built from personal experience and solid research, is at once familiar, unassuming, confiding, witty, and humble, yet reassuringly authoritative-a difficult balance to achieve, but one that comes naturally to David Myers."-from the Foreword by Robert Michael Pyle

"An intimate and personal biophilic journey told in words and images. Wings in the Light catalogs the singular passion of David Lee Myers for the enchanted winged insects we know as butterflies. More than a field guide, he shows the objects of his passion in the raw-not always pristine and lined up like soldiers in a battalion, but in their habitats and sometimes worn and tattered from life in a messy and multifarious world."-James Prosek, author of Eels and Ocean Fishes

"Field guides rarely use photos of faded or tattered butterflies. This book bridges the gap between reference book and art book, and will appeal to both experienced lepidopterists and everyday butterfly enthusiasts with its unique photos and narrative."-Caitlin C. LaBar, co-author of Butterflies of the Pacific Northwest

"A visually impressive and rich introduction to the wealth of North American butterflies."-David G. James, Washington State University, co-author of Life Histories of Cascadia Butterflies