Language: Swedish
Most adult female spinners lack wings and thus cannot fly. The butterfly families presented here are very diverse with specific lifestyles!
Here you can find everything from Sweden's smallest butterfly to the patience-testing clothespins of yesteryear. These small butterfly families are considered the most evolutionarily primitive. This means that they have retained many features from the earliest evolutionary history of butterflies. Some look like metallic shiny jewelry in nature. Or has colorful wings and lovely tousled hair. Others are more mundane. As the name suggests, the jaw moths have jaws and instead of sucking in nectar, they scrape pollen from plants. They are active during the day and you can often see many butterflies looking for food in the same flower. The bagpipes, on the other hand, can fly throughout the day, the males mean, the females of most species have no wings! The wingless females live their lives in a sack made, among other things, of spun plant parts and thus never fly. Several of the species' larvae live inside leaves. They can often be identified using the traces they leave, so-called leaf mines. Collecting leaves with leaf mines in autumn is a good way for those who want to learn more about these butterflies.
Product information
Authors: Bengt Å Bengtsson & Göran Palmquist
Illustrator: Roland Johansson
ISBN: 9789188506610
Language: Swedish
Weight: 2860 grams
Series: Nationalnyckeln till Sveriges flora och fauna
Released: 2008
Publisher: ArtDatabanken SLU
Pages: 646