Abstract
This very attractive field guide belongs to a series that is winning widespread and justified praise for layout, design and overall quality. It covers the 133 ‘macro-moths’ that fly, or are readily disturbed, by day in the British Isles. It also includes a small selection (22 species) of the numerous day-flying ‘micro-moths’. First impressions are excellent: as with others in the series, the book is beautifully designed for field use, compact, and comes with a transparent plastic cover to protect it from the elements. Other welcome ‘field’ features are the life-size photographs of selected species inside the back cover, together with a ruler along the edge of that page. The main species accounts that make up the bulk of the book devote a page to each species and are illustrated by photographs of live moths in their natural habitats. The photographs are almost universally of very fine quality.