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South African Moths & Their Caterpillars by Herman Staude, Mike Picker & Charles Griffiths (Struik Nature, R550)

Moths, unlike their more flashy cousins the butterflies (only 800 butterfly species in Southern Africa), have a bad press because a small minority of the 11 000 species of these Lepidoptera in the subcontinent eat our jerseys. But thanks to three intrepid, moth-loving authors, the moth

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