Moths of the Limberlost

Author(s)

• Gene Stratton-Porter

Gene Stratton-Porter (August 17, 1863 - December 6, 1924) was an American author, amateur naturalist, wildlife photographer, specializing in the birds and moths in one of the last of the vanishing wetlands of the lower Great Lakes Basin. The Limberlost and Wildflower Woods of northeastern Indiana were the laboratory and inspiration for her stories, novels, essays, photography, and movies. She was an accomplished author, artist and photographer and is generally considered to be one of the first female authors to promulgate public positions; conserving the Limberlost Swamp in her case.

Although Stratton-Porter wanted to focus on nature books, it was her romantic novels that made her famous and generated the finances that allowed her to pursue her nature studies. In Moths of the Limberlost, she shares her lifelong love of the moths she describes through a series of charming anecdotes and wonderfully descriptive passages, providing vivid detail of each stage of their life cycles. (Summary adapted from Wikipedia and expanded by J. M. Smallheer)

1. Moths of the Limberlost
2. Moths, eggs, caterpillars, winter quarters
3. The Robin Moth
4. The Yellow Emperor
5. The Lady Bird
6. Moths of the moon
7. King of the hollyhocks
8. Hera of the corn
9. The Sweetheart and the Bride
10. The Giant Gamin
11. The Garden Fly
12. Bloody-Nose of Sunshine Hill
13. The Modest Moth
14. The Pride of the Lilacs
15. The King of the Poets