A specialist in the insect order Lepidoptera, Vane-Wright offers lay readers a guide to butterflies. Like some other insects, the butterfly life cycle involves a complete change in physical form. The worm-like caterpillar that hatches from the egg feeds voraciously with its chewing jaws until it is fully grown, then stops eating and enters an immobile state, the pupa or chrysalis. Within the chrysalis the caterpillar body is radically transformed into the adult that that emerges with its coiled drinking-straw feeding tube and its colorful scaled wings. He considers becoming, mating, laying, eating, flying, communicating, varying, evolving, and butterfly futures. Lavish color photographs illustrate. Annotation ©2015 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)