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  Art Shapiro's Butterfly Site | “Monitoring butterfly populations across Central California for more than 35 ...
Arthur Shapiro, professor of Evolution and Ecology at the University of California, Davis, in his continuing effort to regularly monitor butterfly population trends on a transect across central California.
Harry K. Clench, a butterfly taxonomist at the Carnegie Museum in Pittsburgh and one of the founding members of the Lepidopterists’ Society, published a phenological study of the butterflies of the Powdermill Nature Reserve in southwestern Pennsylvania, and sent me a copy.
When he isn't scouting butterflies and recording them on a spiral notepad, O'Brien is updating his field journal, a remarkable collage of drawings, photographs and text.
butterfly.ucdavis.edu   (997 words)

  
  Butterfly - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Presently butterflies are classified in two superfamilies, Hesperioidea, consisting of the 'skippers' and Papilionoidea or 'true butterflies'.
Although there are many ways of distinguishing a butterfly from a moth, there are exceptions to every rule, and it is perhaps better to think of butterflies as a group of day flying moths.
The aspect ratio of a butterfly's wing is ideal to be described using thin airfoil theory.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Butterfly   (2057 words)

  
 Fraser's Birding Website > Ayrshire Butterfly Report 1999
The butterfly was widespread throughout September and October and the following counts were received: 50+, Bentfield on 24 September; 150, 25-30 September in the Monkton area; 27, Turnberry GC on 25 September and 104, in the orchard at Auchincruive on 5 October.
Most butterflies would appear to have left hibernation around mid-April when the highest spring counts were received: 16 on the disused railwayline at Knockentiber on the 17th (most nectaring on dandelions, Taraxacum spp.); 84 in Townholm on the 27th; 12 at Knockentiber on the 27th and 10 at Martnaham on the 27th.
The butterfly was widely reported throughout July and in early August the butterfly was still common with 44 at Irvine Beach Park and 78 at Gailes on the 1st.
www.fssbirding.org.uk /ayrbflyreport1999.htm   (4450 words)

  
 The Butterfly Conservatory, American Museum of Natural History
And butterfly antennae are thickened, or clubbed, at the tips, while moth antennae are most commonly straight or feathered.
Butterflies are extremely sensitive to environmental changes, and many species have become endangered or extinct because of habitat destruction.
One of the smallest butterflies is the eastern pygmy blue, Brephidium isophthalma, from the coastal southeastern United States, with a wingspan of about 5/8 of an inch.
www.amnh.org /exhibitions/butterflies/faq.html   (489 words)

  
 Butterflies - Whites, Orange-tips, And Yellows
There is probably no butterfly which one can generally find so easily in its early stages as the White or Imported Cabbage butterfly which is found practically wherever cabbages are grown and is generally so abundant that caterpillars and chrysalids are readily discovered.
Here is a butterfly which is essentially a slender fl-bodied creature with four white wings scarcely touched with color, and yet we are told that there are eleven varieties in the United States so distinct that they have received scientific names, not to mention various others which have been found in Europe.
Some years ago the Checkered White was commonly called the Southern Cabbage Butterfly but the general distribution of the imported species has had the same effect upon its abundance in the South that it has had upon the Gray veined White in the North.
www.oldandsold.com /articles30/butterflies-21.shtml   (2384 words)

  
 Eco-Tips :: Butterfly Gardening
Butterflies are one of nature's top pollinators and help pollinate over 1/3 of the food we eat.
Plant your butterfly habitat in a sunny area that is sheltered from wind and by a porch or window where you can enjoy it.
Butterflies with short tongues feed from flowers were the nectar is close to the top, while butterflies with long tongues feed from longer flowers.
www.noahsnotes.com /butterfly.html   (1355 words)

  
 cabbage white butterfly – FREE cabbage white butterfly Information | Encyclopedia.com: Find cabbage white ...
cabbage white butterfly Butterfly, the green caterpillar of which is a common pest on cabbage plants.
The female adult is almost completely white except for fl spots on its wings; the male has no forewing spots.
common ``cabbage worm'' is the larva of the cabbage butterfly, a moderate-sized white butterfly often seen...
www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1O142-cabbagewhitebutterfly.html   (758 words)

  
 Sulphurs & Whites of Kentucky - University of Kentucky Entomology
Sulphurs and Whites of Kentucky - University of Kentucky Entomology
University of Kentucky Entomology/Kentucky Critter Files/Kentucky Insects/Butterflies/Sulphurs and Whites
Butterflies make great photography subjects, but getting a good picture can be a challenge - even when the butterflies aren't flying, they are almost always walking around or moving their wings up and down.
www.uky.edu /Ag/CritterFiles/casefile/insects/butterflies/sulphur/sulphur.htm   (627 words)

  
 Butterfly Gardening in North Dakota
Butterflies bring a sense of excitement to a flower garden and are relaxing and uplifting at the same time.
Butterfly gardens are a simple and easy way to improve the quality of life for a person and to beautify a community or a backyard.
Some other ways to help attract butterflies are: a water source, like mud puddles (Figure 2) or wet sandy areas, which provide the necessary salts or minerals for butterflies (e.g., a salt or mineral block used for livestock); or butterfly feeders (Figure 1) filled with a 10 percent sugar-water solution for an additional nectar source.
www.ag.ndsu.edu /pubs/plantsci/landscap/e1266w.htm   (2891 words)

  
 KINGSTON BUTTERFLY DIARY
The first butterfly of the year was seen on 16 March but was too far away to be positively identified.
The heat-wave in mid-June certainly brought out a large number of butterflies but numbers generally were well down throughout the month, not helped as the weather once more reverted to cold and wet for days on end.
The summer was notable for the greatly reduced numbers of butterflies to be seen, for example the Marbled Whites peaked at 53, less than two-thirds of last year's total.
www.kenelks.co.uk /butterflies/news.htm   (1662 words)

  
 Butterfly Identification
There are just 5 whites you will see in North Wales, and the only ones that are difficult to distinguish from each other are the Large White and the Small White.
This was found to be THE most common butterfly by people across the UK who sent in records for the Butterfly Conservation "Garden Butterflies Count" project, launched by our Vice president, Alan Titchmarsh, in 2002 and 2003.Go to; www.butterfly-conservation.org to find out more.
Often the first butterfly to be seen in early Spring, the adults love to nectar on Honesty flowers (seen in left picture) in the garden.
www.northwalesbutterflies.org.uk /butterflyIDWhites.htm   (510 words)

  
 Archive of Butterfly and Moth Sightings in Dorset   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Small and Green-veined Whites, Speckled Woods, Meadow Browns, Common Blues, Small Coppers, a Red Admiral and a Painted Lady, and also a Silver Y Moth, were seen in the Lydlinch/Deadmoor Common area.
Gatekeepers, Meadow Browns, Small Tortoiseshells, Walls, Large Whites, Small Whites, Green-veined Whites, a Small Copper, Common Blues, a Holly Blue, a Painted Lady, a Clouded Yellow and Red Admirals, a Magpie Moth and a Silver Y Moth were seen on a circular walk around Piddlehinton and Piddletrenthide.
White Admiral, Large Skipper and Silver-washed Fritillary are flying at Piddles Wood.
www.dorsetbutterflies.co.uk /specials_archive.htm   (6695 words)

  
 Southwest Nectar Plants That Attract Butterflies
A member of the daisy family, their cheerful yellow flowers are a great nectar source for a variety of butterfly species including Whites, Sulphurs, Brush-foots, Skippers, and Blues; and is a favorite of the Great Spangled Fritillary.
Butterflies love azalea flowers and they are a favorite nectar source for species such as the Pipevine Swallowtail, the Giant Swallowtail, and the Sleepy Duskywing.
To attract butterflies, plant in masses as a ground cover, in beds and borders, hedges, and even in hanging baskets and containers on a patio or balcony.
www.theblendmagazine.com /Nature/butterfly-plantlist.htm   (5109 words)

  
 butterfly Species in the Southwest
These colorful eyespots fool predators such as birds into thinking that the butterfly's tail is their head region, so that they will attack the tail of the butterfly instead of the head, allowing the butterfly to escape with no more damage than a piece taken from its wing.
Whites and sulphurs are quite common and its member butterflies are usually white, yellow or orange.
This family is known to usually have orange in their wings and a small pair of forelegs that have lots of tiny hairs (hence the name brush-foot), which the females use to 'taste' food plants where they want to lay their eggs.
www.theblendmagazine.com /Nature/butterfly-species-list.htm   (1608 words)

  
 Brian's Butterfly World - Butterfly Families and Anatomy
In the butterfly world, there are six commonly recognized families of butterflies (and over 20 for moths!).
These butterflies are generally the largest and most have long tails off of their hind wings.
These butterflies are medium-sized and are usually smooth shades of white and yellow.
home.earthlink.net /~briansbutterflyworld/families.html   (339 words)

  
 M. Butterfly - David Henry Hwang
Although Gallimard says at the opening that he was the boy voted least likely to be invited to a party, this married diplomat—after he took Butterfly as his mistress—has a fling with a bored Swedish girl attached to the diplomatic community.
Kaput!” Yet Americans, who fail to understand that Butterfly does not represent realistic Japanese behavior, are suckers for the emotional aria “Un bel di” that details Butterfly’s agonizing wait for Pinkerton’s ship to return and for him to walk up the hill to her open arms.
Arena capitalizes on this after Gallimard dresses up as Butterfly, whites his face, reddens his lips, and seems to commit suicide while the aria plays and a second rain of petals falls.
www.culturevulture.net /Theater/MButterfly.htm   (900 words)

  
 Butterfly identification - the Pieridae (Whites)
Butterflies of the Pieridae family are predominantly White or Yellow.
Distinguished from Small White by extent of fl at wing tip of forewing.
The Marbled White is a member of the Satyridae family (Browns)
www.butterflygarden.co.uk /b_id_gallery/whites.htm   (100 words)

  
 Cabbage White Butterfly - Pieris rapae
What is not generally known, however, is this medium-sized ubiquitous butterfly is an invasive species, accidentally introduced onto North America at Quebec in 1860.
Farmers and gardeners consider the Cabbage White a pest species; its caterpillars have a ravenous appetite for radishes, cabbage, and nasturtiums.
Butterflies of North America by Bruce Marlin is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 Unported License.
cirrusimage.com /butterfly_cwhite.htm   (227 words)

  
 Butterfly Gardening And Butterflies Found In Pennsylvania - Butterfly Gift Shop
The butterflies will land on these plants and uncoil their proboscis to drink the sweet nectar.
Host plants are the plants or trees that each particular species of butterfly needs to lay her eggs on.
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.
www.butterflyhaven.com /gardening.htm   (247 words)

  
 wisconsinbutterflies.org | West Virginia White
The West Virginia White is an uncommon butterfly in Wisconsin that is very similar to the Mustard White.
My previous photos of spring Mustard Whites were very distinctive, with a definite yellowish tinge to the hindwing and the forewing tip, and very dark veins on the hindwing beneath.
I do know that Mustard Whites were present at the same locations later in the summer, but I had originally thought the Mustard Whites had just flown earlier in the spring.
www.wisconsinbutterflies.org /butterflies/species/107   (319 words)

  
 Nature-Wise by Roy Lukes
The sulpurs and the whites flashing sunshine in their wings are appearing on the August scene in great number and as though on cue.
Prior to the arrival of the cabbage butterflies in North America, which is now the number one butterfly here in population, a native white butterfly called the mustard white was very common.
The flight of the mustard whites is closer to the ground and at a slower pace.
www.doorbell.net /lukes/a082302.htm   (808 words)

  
 Pigmentation In Some Butterfly Wings Created By Nanostructures
The patterns on the wings enable butterflies to recognize their own species at a distance and differentiate between males and females – rather handy when you’re hunting for a partner.
Butterflies Use Polarized Light To Attract Mates (May 1, 2003) — Up to 20 layers of transparent scales on butterfly wings scatter white light to produce brilliant blue structural color.
Female butterflies go for sparkle -- not size -- when choosing to mate (Jun. 29, 2005) — Size doesn't matter, at least not the size of the eyespots on a male butterfly's wings when female butterflies consider potential mates.
www.sciencedaily.com /releases/2008/01/080117201947.htm   (1165 words)

  
 WI wider race riots 1992 or Dan Childers personal Butterfly effect - Alternate History Discussion Board
PS Butterfly Effect should interest anyone thats interested in alternate history and the ideas behind it.
I don't picture whites rioting en masse engaging in looting and burning down public property in retaliation for the hypothetical beating of Dan Childers.
White flight has been costly to tax bases, but the silver lining to it has been that fls are much less often subject to physical harassment by random white citizens than they were in earlier generations.
www.alternatehistory.com /discussion/showthread.php?t=890   (808 words)

  
 Butterfly Families Are The Key To Identification
Identifying butterflies is easy when you start with the most common families, with the least members.
Butterfly families are separated by wing vein patterns, color and how the butterfly sits or perches.
The North American Butterfly Association has great regional lists of common local butterflies and the best nectar and host plants for several regions.
www.connecting-with-nature.net /butterfly-families.html   (340 words)

  
 Butterfly Atlas | Mass Audubon
This is the common white butterfly of Massachusetts and the only one to be expected in the eastern half of the state.
During the Atlas Project this butterfly was recorded in virtually all of the quadrangles.
In Massachusetts, Cabbage Whites are on the wing from early spring to late fall.
www.massaudubon.org /butterflyatlas/index.php?id=106   (624 words)

  
 Activity | Art Shapiro's Butterfly Site
Remember that most (but not all, as you will see) butterfly species spend the winter in the Northern hemisphere (where winters are cold) as eggs or larvae or pupae -- and then emerge as adults when temperatures are warmer in the spring or summer.
The butterflies and observations that we're going to deal with here come from Northern California, in the Central Valley, in three counties: Yolo, Solano, and Sacramento Counties.
Each point, however, is still one butterfly observation from one year, and what this shows is a relationship between date of emergence and the warmth of the year.
butterfly.ucdavis.edu /education/stat2/activity   (1697 words)

  
 Butterfly Cake Web-Page | Butterfly Cake Directory   (Site not responding. Last check: )
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This butterfly cake with candy coated wings is a sure way to attract friends at any party.
www.cake-resources.info /butterfly-cake.html   (858 words)

  
 Pigmentation In Some Butterfly Wings Created By Nanostructures
The colours on butterfly wings are used as an advertisement.
This is because the wings of Japanese male and female cabbage whites differ subtly, unlike those of their European relatives: the scales on the wings of Japanese female cabbage whites lack specific pigment grains, those that ensure that UV light is absorbed.
It may be possible to apply the nanostructures observed in butterflies to create impressive optic effects in paint, varnish, cosmetics, packaging materials and clothes.
www.ccnmag.com /news.php?id=5957   (659 words)

  
 NSiS: Florida Butterfly Gardening with Native Plants - Butterfly Species
Butterflies belong to the Order Lepidoptera which also includes moths and skippers.
Strays are butterflies that are outside their breeding range and in an area that is not usually part of their migration.
The Zebra Longwing, one of the brushfooted butterflies, is Florida's state butterfly.
www.nsis.org /butterfly/butterfly-species.html   (150 words)

  
 Small White butterfly from an english butterfly garden
The Small White butterfly isn't that small in relation to other British butterflies: It is smaller than the Large White butterfly.
Small and Large Whites are known to British gardeners as Cabbage Whites; they are the only species that are garden pests in that they lay their eggs upon members of the cabbage family.
Large White butterflies are slightly larger than Small White butterflies (obviously!) I try to look at the fl marking at the tip of the forewing which is longer on the Large White butterfly.
www.butterflygarden.co.uk /butterflies/small_white.htm   (355 words)

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