Arthur Shapiro on Butterflies of the San Francisco Bay and Sacramento Valley Regions Sunday, September 9, 2007 3:30 pm Time Tested Books is very excited to announce a presentation by Arthur Shapiro on Sacramento area butterflies based on his new book A Field Guide to the Butterflies of the San Francisco Bay and Sacramento Valley Regions, published by University of California Press. Art Shapiro has dedicated his life to the pursuit of knowledge about the butterfly and passing that knowledge on to others. After receiving a PhD in Entomology from Cornell in 1970, Shapiro has worked as a researcher in the Department of Zoology at Oxford and as an instructor at City University of New York. In 1972, he joined the Department of Zoology at the University of California, Davis and has been there ever since. At UC Davis he has taught General Zoology, General Biology, Chemical Ecology, Philosophy of the Biological Sciences, and Animal Evolution. He has engaged in groundbreaking research  on butterflies in the Andes and Patagonia and has created Art Shaprio’s Butterflies Site, an online culmination of 34 years of studying the butterflies of the Central Valley. He is Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the California Academy of Sciences, the Royal Entomological Society of London, and the Explorers Club and has received the Academic Senate Distinguished Teaching Award and the Outstanding Adviser Award at Davis and has been a Fellow of the Davis Humanities Institute. Suffice to say he will probably be the one person who knows the most about bugs to ever grace our bookstore. Please visit Art Shapiro’s Butterfly Site   Time Tested Books is located at 1114 21st Street in Midtown Sacramento.