Samples from the insect book

I've been mentioning for a couple of years now that Cheryl and I were working on a little book of Arkansas insects. It was a lot longer process than we imagined, but it is now out, and we think the designer did a very nice job arranging the pictures on the page and wrapping the text around them. There was so much build-up for the book that I was afraid readers would find it a huge anticlimax, but from what I hear people seem to be enjoying the book, so that is a relief.

I'm including here both sides of a prepublication card advertising the book, and a couple of examples of pages of the book. I hope the pictures I took of the pages in the book will be sharp enough and the text legible enough that you can get some idea of the book.

In the process of going through the thousands of pictures we have taken of insects over the past fifteen years, I noticed that we have pictures of virtually every species of butterfly that occurs in Arkansas (well, that includes borrowing a few from friends), so now I am thinking of trying to do a guide to the identification of Arkansas butterflies. That should keep me busy for a while.