Manitoba Butterflies is one of the most unique and accessible field guides to feature Manitoba's winged ambassador, the butterfly. Novices and experts alike will be engrossed with over 600 full colour photos featuring full colour life-size specimens as well as images of the entire butterfly lifecycle from egg to mature butterfly of over 100 butterfly species found in Manitoba. The combination of scientific fact and anecdotal information make for a thoroughly engaging way to learn about butterflies.

Author, artist and journalist, Simone Allard is one of Manitoba’s biggest butterfly enthusiasts. An author of five French-language children’s books, contributor to Youth News and Ducks Unlimited, and award-winning documentary director, Allard’s unique blend of talents combined with a fascination for Lepidoptery (the study of butterflies) have created the perfect storm. Manitoba Butterflies is her first book in English. She currently lives and writes in Winnipeg.

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A field guide yes, but more than most. Simone Hébert Allard's Manitoba Butterflies is visually magnificent. At the same time, the book is full of expert detail, and life history illustration, which has been notoriously hard to find. Her photographs and new information on butterflies of the far North, are a particularly valuable contribution.
--David Shaw, Research Associate, McGuire Center for Lepidoptera

In Manitoba Butterflies, Simone Hébert Allard has created a field guide to native butterflies that will be of interest to scientists, while still being accessible to amateur enthusiasts of all levels of experience. The species pages are clear and intuitive, and will be a pleasure to use in the field. This will be a must-have book for all serious butterfly enthusiasts (watchers, rearers, and collectors) in Western Canada and in the Northern Tier of States in the US.
­--Jeffrey Marcus, Associate Professor, University of Manitoba