Family Day Snapshot: Raising Readers

Raising Readers

 

Here’s daughter Seabrooke, reading with one-year-old son Rowan, three-year-old daughter Coralie, and two-year-old nephew Everett. Books have always been important in our family. Now there is a new generation of readers in the making. Seabrooke went on to become an author! Her Peterson Field Guide to Moths of Northeastern North America was published a few years ago, and a new guide, Peterson Field Guide to Moths of Southeastern North America is set to be released through Amazon on March 13th!

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Author! Author!

It’s here! Finally, after many months of hard work and anticipation, our daughter Seabrooke received her advance copy of her new book, the Peterson Field Guide to Moths. How exciting! We, her doting parents, rushed over to take a look at the long-awaited book. It’s even more beautiful than expected! You can get a peek at the interior and read the author’s comments over at Seab’s blog, linked here. The guide is scheduled to arrive in bookstores April 17th. Congratulations, Seabrooke!

P.S. Thanks to Ellen for bringing up autographed copies. They’re available through Seab’s website, link above.

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Hitched Arches

While doing some weeding in the garden on the weekend, I came across this interesting caterpillar. It was nibbling its way along a daylily leaf. Caterpillars are an eternal wonder. That such a creature could be magically reborn as a butterfly or moth is incredible. The question is, what kind of butterfly or moth will it become?

I have a couple of guide books to help answer this question. One is the Peterson First Guide to Caterpillars, by Amy Bartlett Wright. It is an accessible look at some common caterpillars, the ones you are most likely to encounter. David Wagner’s Caterpillars of Eastern North America is much more inclusive. Both books failed me in this case. It was time to move on to my next source, my daughter Seabrooke! Sure enough, the co-author of the Peterson Field Guide to Moths of Northeastern North America was able to identify my caterpillar as a Hitched Arches (Melanchra adjuncta), and she kindly provided me with this photograph of the moth my caterpillar will some day become. Thank you!

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