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	Butterfly Gardening in North Dakota
		Butterflies bring a sense of excitement to a flower garden and are relaxing and uplifting at the same time.
		Exceptions to the nectar-feeding butterflies are the woodland butterflies, which are attracted to fermenting fruit or sap.
		These butterflies are rarely attracted to flowers but are common at sap flows in the spring and fermenting fruit in mid-summer and fall.
	www.ext.nodak.edu /extpubs/plantsci/landscap/e1266w.htm (2855 words)

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		The family Nymphalidae contains butterflies called "brushfooted" butterflies because their front pair of legs is reduced.
		Description: This medium sized brushfooted butterfly, with a 1- ½ to 2-½ inch wingspan, is overall yellow-brown from above, but has two prominent intricately-colored eyespots on each of the fore and hind wings and additional white, red and marginal markings.
		Butterflies are found in open areas where they make shots flights between stops where they rest on the ground, holding their wings out while basking.
	insects.tamu.edu /fieldguide/cimg280.html (248 words)

	1998 Faculty Publications, College of Science, Oregon State University
		A larval brush-footed butterfly (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae) in Dominican amber, with a summary of fossil Nymphalidae.
		Mitochondrial vs. nuclear DNA sequence evolution among nymphalid butterflies: the utility of wingless as a source of characters for phylogenetic inference.
		Brower, A.V.Z. Phylogenetic relationships among nymphalid butterflies inferred from sequences of the wingless gene.
	osu.orst.edu /dept/science/98publist.html (12922 words)

	Brush-footed butterfly - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Nymphalidae is a family of about 5,000 species of butterflies.
		The front two legs are small, so these butterflies are effectively four-legged.
		Peter Chew, "Danaids and Browns - Family Nymphalidae", Brisbane butterflies web site (2005).
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Nymphalidae (255 words)

	Articles - Butterfly
		An erroneous etymology claims that the word butterfly came from a metathesis of "flutterby"; however, the Old English word was buttorfleoge and a similar word occurs in Dutch, apparently because butterflies were thought to steal milk.
		Although the butterflies are classified in two superfamilies, Hesperioidea and Papilionoidea, these are sister taxa, so the butterflies collectively are thought to constitute a true clade.
		The aspect ratio of a butterfly's wing is ideal to be described using thin airfoil theory.
	www.sinoz.com /articles/Butterfly (1400 words)

	Life Cycle - 05/1995
		Its family, Nymphalidae, named after the goddess of waters, meadows, and forests, is known as the "brush-footed" butterfly family and is the largest, most varied true butterfly family among the few fossil butterflies identified.
		These butterflies live their entire lives in the serpentine grasslands on a select few plants.
		With the warmth of spring, they emerge as adult butterflies, drinking the nectar from the Hog Fennel (Lomatium), Tidy Tips, Goldfields, and Linanthus.
	www.friendsofedgewood.org /newsletters/1995/9505/life.htm (427 words)

	brush-footed butterfly -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		Among them are found large butterflies of the Charaxes (brush-footed) and Papilio (swallow-tailed) genera, stick insects, and mantises, grasshoppers, driver, or safari, ants (tropical ants that travel in vast, serried ranks), termites, and dung...
		Brushes were used by man as early as the Paleolithic Period (began about 2,500,000 years ago) to apply pigment, as shown by the cave paintings of Altamira in Spain and the Périgord in France.
		University of Connecticut zoologist Alan Brush studied the chemistry of bird feathers, claws, and reptile scales; those genes on the DNA strand that control the development of such structures were key in his investigations.
	secure.britannica.com /eb/article-9016803 (807 words)

	Olympus MIC-D: Butterfly Wing Scale Gallery - Rusty-Tipped Page
		Unlike many rainforest butterflies, which spend most of their time feeding and flying at the canopy level, the rusty-tipped page often flies back and forth across edge vegetation at less than 2 meters from the ground.
		Adults are sometimes known as brown bamboo page or brown siproeta butterflies based on the colors of their more subdued wing undersides.
		A new butterfly slowly emerges from its pupal case to begin a new generation when metamorphosis is complete.
	www.olympusmicro.com /micd/galleries/butterfly/rustytippedpager6.html (664 words)

	Butterfly: Classification
		Butterflies and moths constitute the insect order Lepidoptera, or scaly-winged insects (See INSECTS).
		These five families include all the 650 or more species of butterflies found within the United States.
		Their expanse of wing is often eight or more inches, and their coloring is more brilliant than that of the richest tropical flowers.
	www.factopia.com /practical-reference/butterfly-classification.htm (160 words)

	Pest Classification
		They are small butterflies whose flight is extremely rapid and erratic.
		Complete life cycle; adults have siphoning probe and larvae usually have chewing mouth; crochets on pro-legs (stumpy legs); adults have large wings with scales; knobby antenna on butterflies and feathery antenna on moths; moth larvae usually pest and butterfly larvae usually benign.
		Blues tend to be iridescent blue, coppers tend to be copper colored and hairstreaks often have hairlike tails on their rear wings.
	clallam.wsu.edu /mg/pest_classification.htm (3853 words)

	Information on nymphalid
		nymphalid n : medium to large butterflies found worldwide typically having brightly colored wings and much-reduced nonfunctional forelegs carried folded on the breast [syn: nymphalid butterfly, brush-footed butterfly, four-footed butterfly]
		Any butterfly of the family Nymphalidae, consisting of medium to large butterflies found worldwide, typically having brightly colored wings and much-reduced nonfunctional forelegs carried folded on the breast.
	www.wkonline.com /d/nymphalid.html (89 words)

	Resources: Summer/Fall, 1999
		Bordered patch butterfly: From the brush-footed butterfly family, this is one of the most abundant butterflies in the desert, grassland and low mountain Southwest.
		Convergent ladybird beetle: This native species is one of the most familiar and popular insects, after butterflies.
		When crushed, the masses produce a bright, red-purple dye that Betsy Ross may have used for the stripes on the first American flag.
	www.cahe.nmsu.edu /pubs/resourcesmag/summerfall99/jeepers.html (356 words)

	North Dakota Butterfly Surveys
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		Red Admiral Vanessa atalanta (Linnaeus), 1758 Habitat: Sunlit patches in woodland clearings near nettles Larval food: Urtica Adult flight: Regular spring immigrant; does not survive winter References: Royer 76, Opler & Krizek 160, Scott 280 Confirmed occurrences: 23 Jun 1995 SW 1/4 S1 T158N R77W.
	www.npwrc.usgs.gov /resource/insects/bflysurv/salyer/brush.htm (1150 words)

	Related WordNet synsets for SUMO concept Insect
		medium to large butterflies found worldwide typically having brightly colored wings and much-reduced nonfunctional forelegs carried folded on the breast
		small butterflies having striped markings under the wings
		butterfly with silver spots on the underside of the hind wings
	virtual.cvut.cz /kifb/wordnet/_insect.html (5139 words)

	Nymphalidae - Definition of Nymphalidae by Webster's Online Dictionary
		A natural family of large beautifully colored butterflies, called also the brush-footed butterflies; formerly called
		Apatura, Argynnis, arthropod family, brush-footed butterfly, family Nymphalidae, four-footed butterfly, genus Apatura, genus Argynnis, genus Inachis, genus Limenitis, genus Nymphalis, genus Polygonia, genus Spyeria, genus Vanessa, Inachis, Lepidoptera, Limenitis, nymphalid, nymphalid butterfly, Nymphalis, order Lepidoptera, Polygonia, Spyeria, Vanessa
	www.webster-dictionary.org /definition/Nymphalidae (72 words)

	DC Area Butterflies -- Brush-footed Butterflies
		To Butterflies Occurring in the DC Area Home Page
	users.sitestar.net /~jmfarron/d_smith/brushft.htm (9 words)

	brush-footed_butterfly
		[n] medium to large butterflies found worldwide typically having brightly colored wings and much-reduced nonfunctional forelegs carried folded on the breast.
	lookwayup.com /lwu.exe/lwu/d?s=f&w=brush-footed_butterfly (21 words)

	Brush-footed Butterfly Underwing
		With salts and minerals at a premium in the tropical rainforests, these butterflies gather to imbibe mineral collected in rain puddles along the road for strength in their mating duties.
		Males are the only ones to have brush feet and probably use them in mating rituals.
		Butterfly groups include monarchs, satyrs, dagerwings, leaf-wings, owls, buckeyes, admirals, checkerspots, crecents, fritillaries, heliconids, riodinids, blues, hairstreaks, coppers, whites, orange-tips, sulphurs and swallowtails.
	www.bugbios.com /entophiles/lepidoptera/lepi_025.html (153 words)

	Butterfly Gardening And Butterflies Found In Pennsylvania - Butterfly Gift Shop
		Just find the butterflies you would like to attract to your garden (check to see if they are naturally found in your area), then plant their host plant.
		The butterflies will land on these plants and uncoil their proboscis to drink the sweet nectar.
		Nectar Plants are the ones used by the butterflies for food.
	butterflyhaven.com /gardening.htm (263 words)

	Butterflies and Moths
		While for us their wing colors are the source of delight, for butterflies and moths they serve practical purposes, including camouflage and sexual self-advertisement.
		When we handle butterflies and moths, the "dust" that comes off is composed of these minute scales.
		Adult butterflies and moths usually have wings with overlapping scales covering transparent membranes.
	www.150.si.edu /150trav/discover/bfly.htm (94 words)

	Why do these social butterflies smell bad? - Renfield's Garden
		The zebra longwing (Heliconius charitonius Linnaeus) is a brush-footed butterfly.
		This external digestion provides the butterfly with a liquid high in amino acids and is possibly the reason these butterflies are so long lived.
		Zebras are social; the caterpillars feed in groups and the butterflies roost in colonies, returning to the same roost every night.
	www.killerplants.com /renfields-garden/20020313.asp (322 words)

	Western admiral - DesertUSA
		These butterflies are closely related to the viceroys (Limenitis archippus) and the Red admiral (Vanessa atalanta).
		This butterfly occurs along streams and rivers that are lined with willows or cottonwoods.
		The Weidemeyer's admiral is a fairly large butterfly, between two and three quarter to three and three eighths inches wide.
	www.desertusa.com /mag00/aug/papr/butter.html (502 words)

	Brush-footed Butterflies (Nymphalidae) - MavicaNET
		Butterflies typically lay their eggs on a small number of host plants, suitable for larval consumption, while the adults consume nectar from a wide variety of plants.
		The Butterfly Zone is a southeast Florida corporation that markets butterfly gardening supplies, seeds, and live plants that are carefully selected to be highly attractive to butterflies.
		Butterflies are insects with complete metamorphosis, passing through egg, larval, pupal, and adult stages.
	www.mavicanet.com /directory/ger/19314.html (562 words)

	Brush-footed Butterflies
		What to look for: brown to orange brown butterfly; wings with white-spotted black borders and dark veins (lighter on the Queen); male with dark scent patch along fifth vein of hindwing.
		What to look for: large butterfly, most species solid yellow or orange, sometimes with faint dark border, spot on forewing, or both
		What to look for: brown butterfly 6 large eyespots (1 on each forewing, 2 on each hindwing)
	www.corrystuart.net /child_butterflies1.html (103 words)

	* Viceroy - (Animals): Definition
		Other butterflies, such as Queens and Viceroys, copy the colors of monarchs so that birds won't eat them either...
		They quickly learn that monarchs are not good to eat.
	www.mimihu.com /animals/viceroy.html (61 words)

	Information on brush-footed butterfly
		brush-footed butterfly n : medium to large butterflies found worldwide typically having brightly colored wings and much-reduced nonfunctional forelegs carried folded on the breast [syn: nymphalid, nymphalid butterfly, four-footed butterfly]
		[ W E B K N O W L E D G E O N L I N E :: brush-footed butterfly ]
	www.wkonline.com /d/brush-footed_butterfly.html (53 words)

	Alexander Landscaping & Plant Farm, Inc.
		Psychotria nervosa - "Wild Coffee" with a Heliconius charitonius - "Zebra Longwing" of the Brush-footed Butterfly family
		Plant natives to attract wildlife, such as birds and butterflies.
		Native groundcover, shrubs, vines, trees and palms can add great beauty to the landscape while reducing the required water, fertilizer and maintenance.
	www.alexfarm.com /pages/881819/index.htm (244 words)

	Sovereign - Biocrawler
		"Sovereign" is an informal name for butterflies of the genus Basilarchia, or more broadly of any in the family Nymphalidae.
		Sovereign was a MMORTS game cancelled before release in 2003.
	www.biocrawler.com /biowiki/Sovereign (226 words)

	brush-footed butterfly
		any of several butterflies of the family Nymphalidae, including the fritillaries, mourning cloaks, anglewings, and commas, characterized by reduced, nonfunctional forelegs.
	www.factmonster.com /ipd/A0353935.html (46 words)

	Brush-footed Butterflies
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	amberhabib.tripod.com /Photo/butterflies/brushfooted (12 words)

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