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Key Resources and References

Below is a short list of published literature and online resources used to develop the fact sheets. It is not an exhaustive bibliography but shows several of the most useful citations. Each fact sheet also lists specific references.

R. Cech and G. Tudor. 2005. Butterflies of the East Coast. Pg. 248. Princeton University Press, Princeton, New Jersey, 248 pp.

Dunkle, S.W. 2000. Dragonflies through Binoculars: A Field Guide to Dragonflies of North America. Oxford University Press. New York. 266 pp.

Glassberg, J. 1999. Butterflies through Binoculars, the East: A Field Guide to Butterflies of Eastern North America. Oxford University Press.       New York. 242 pp.

Lam, Ed. 2004. Damselflies of the Northeast. Biodiversity Books. Forest Hills, New York. 96 pp.

NatureServe. 2012. NatureServe Explorer: An online encyclopedia of life [web application]. Version 7.1. NatureServe, Arlington, Virginia.       Available http://www.natureserve.org/explorer.

Opler, P.A. and V. Malikul. 1998. A Field Guide to Eastern Butterflies. Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, Massachusetts. 287 pp.

Paulson, Dennis. 2011. Dragonflies and Damselflies of the East. Princeton University Press. Princeton, New Jersey. 538 pp.

Schweitzer, D. F., M. C. Minno, and D. L. Wagner. Rare, Declining and Poorly Known Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) of Forests and       Woodlands in the Eastern United States. USDA Forest Service, Morgantown, WV, FHTET-2011-01. 517 pp.

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