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Laufer, Peter, 1950-
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Butterflies -- Economic aspects.
Butterflies -- Collectors and collecting.
Butterflies -- Conservation.
Butterflies -- Effect of human beings on.
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The dangerous world ...
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The dangerous world of butterflies : the startling subculture of criminals, collectors, and conservationists / Peter Laufer.
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Laufer, Peter, 1950-
Guilford, Conn. : Lyons Press, c2010.
Subjects
Butterflies -- Economic aspects.
Butterflies -- Collectors and collecting.
Butterflies -- Conservation.
Butterflies -- Effect of human beings on.
ISBN:
9781599219271 (pbk.) :
Description:
xvi, 271 p. ; 24 cm.
Contents:
Off to Nicaragua and an introduction to Lepidoptera -- With the purists where butterflies fly free -- My successful commercial butterfly release -- Diapause -- The flight and plight of the monarch -- In pursuit of the world's most wanted butterfly smuggler -- Death-defying, globe-trotting butterfly hunting -- Butterflies versus National Security -- The butterfly as art -- Creation versus evolution -- Butterfly resurrection.
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Chronicles Laufer's unexpected discoveries in the butterfly industry and underground--from the beauty and magic of butterflies to the high-stakes realms of organized crime, ecological devastation, species depletion, natural history museum integrity, and chaos theory.
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Hawaii State Library
Business, Science & Technology
595.78907 La
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Adult Nonfiction
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