Michelle Stuart: "Butterflies and Moths" Jan 4, 2008
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A hunger for books Dec 8, 2007
How about butterflies and moths and bees on the aromatic bushes of the Kalahari. Or, sitting on the pale grassy banks of the Zambesi, the water dark and glossy, with all the birds of Africa darting about. (Guardian Unlimited -- Books)
Butterflies used to check climate Oct 9, 2007
Welcoming the government's decision, he said: "It is brilliant news. "Butterflies and moths are very sensitive to changes and if we can learn from them we can help all Scotland's wildlife. " Bookmark with: SEE ALSO 16 Aug 07 | Tayside and Central 23 Aug 07 | Highlands and Islands 24 Jul 07 | South of Scotland RELATED BBC LINKS RELATED INTERNET LINKS The BBC is not responsible for the content of external internet sites MOST E-MAILED Restaurants 'face chefs shortage' Internet names for Asia... (BBC News -- UK)
This plant family lights up the fall Sep 14, 2007
Other blooming composites along the way included the pink-flowered tall-thistle, whose nectar attracted various bees, butterflies and moths; yellow-flowered sneezeweed; thin-leaf coneflower, or brown-eyed Susan, similar to the common black-eyed Susan; orange coneflower; wild blue lettuce (a cousin of garden lettuce); pinkish-purple Joe-pye weed, one of Georgia's most common fall wildflowers; white-flowered thoroughwort, close kin to boneset and Joe-pye weed; and yellow wingstem, so named because... (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
Emphasis on conifer forests places multiple species at risk Aug 24, 2007
And in the conifer forests of western Oregon, hardwood trees support the abundance of 69 percent of the butterflies and moths. In similar fashion, 90 percent of the diet of the northern spotted owl is composed of small mammals that are associated with non-coniferous vegetation. (EurekAlert!)
Expert to show local children how to raise butterflies Aug 21, 2007
What I m going to do is show them how they can go out and find butterflies and moths, said Mikula, president of the International Butterfly Breeders Association. He will demonstrate how they can use household items, such as plastic containers, old curtains and soft drink bottles, to care for butterflies before the items are recycled. (The Citizen's Voice, PA)
VISIT FROM A BUTTERFLY GUY Aug 20, 2007
What I m going to do is show them how they can go out and find butterflies and moths, said Mr. Mikula, president of the International Butterfly Breeders Association. He also will demonstrate how kids can use household items, such as plastic containers, old curtains and soft drink bottles, to care for butterflies before the items are recycled, and how to make gardens more butterfly-friendly. (Scranton Times, PA)
Grand Rapids celebrating art and jazz Aug 16, 2007
National Center for Nature Photography: Secor Metropark; Gossamer Wings: the butterflies and moths of the Oak Opening Region; Your Beautiful Metroparks; both through Aug. 26. Hours: Sat. (Yahoo News -- Auto Racing)
10 things we love about John D. MacArthur State Park Aug 3, 2007
If you're counting, roughly 2,600 species of butterflies and moths call Florida home. If you don't know your giant swallowtails from your great southern whites, sign up for the free guided butterfly walk. (Sun-Sentinel.com)
Ward: Resilience Aug 1, 2007
Pollination is a fundamental process that happens many ways -- birds do it, bees do it, even butterflies and moths do it. But humans who grow food rely almost exclusively on bees; and not the hundreds of species of wild bees either, but one bee, the European honeybee. (Zmag.org)
Rare giant moth visits Maryville Jul 30, 2007
According to the Association of Butterflies and Moths of North America, the eyespots are where it gets its name from the Greek myth of the Cyclops Polyphemus, contained in Homer s Odyssey. The caterpillar of the Polyphemus moth can eat 86,000 times its weight at emergence in a little less than two months. (Maryville Daily Forum, MO)
Nature lovers gather for pollination fest Jul 30, 2007
A full lineup of free events related to bees, hummingbirds, butterflies and moths was set up between 10 a.m. and 6 p.m.. Visitors could participate in animal seminars, bee tracking and honey extraction, and even a pollination puppet show for the kids. (The Pantagraph newspaper)
Saving forests with butterfly nets Jul 26, 2007
He has learnt to identify dozens of different types of butterflies and moths and regularly collects their eggs from the cage. Jefwa then places them in a plastic box for five days and drops the newly-morphed caterpillars on plants, where they feed before the penultimate stage of their transformation into pupae ready for export. (iAfrica.com)
Citizen scientists train to monitor butterflies Jul 15, 2007
The effort is a part of the Florida Butterfly Monitoring Network, where lepidopterists scientists who study butterflies and moths partner with Florida zoos, their employees and volunteers to collect butterfly data along preset trails. The results will give Florida the first baseline data scientists need to determine what butterflies it has, how many and whether they are endangered, network coordinator Akers Pence said. (Florida Today)
DNA reveals Greenland's lush past Jul 7, 2007
Living in the trees and on the forest floor was a wide variety of insect life including beetles, flies, spiders, butterflies and moths. The discovery pushes forward the date when the last forests were known to exist in Greenland by nearly two million years. (BBC News)
Oldest DNA samples found on Greenland Jul 6, 2007
These include beetles, butterflies and moths. It is the oldest authenticated DNA to be recovered from ancient biological material and represents a triumph for scientists trying to reconstruct past habitats destroyed by climate change. (Independent)
DNA discovery reveals Greenland's warm past Jul 6, 2007
There were trees such as alder, spruce, pine and members of the yew family, and invertebrates related to beetles, flies, spiders, butterflies and moths. "We have shown for the first time that southern Greenland, which is currently hidden under more than 2km of ice, was once very different to the Greenland we see today," said Eske Willerslev, an archaeologist at the University of Copenhagen. (Guardian Unlimited)
DNA reveals a green Greenland Jul 6, 2007
From the samples retrieved, the team identified a wide range of plant and insect species trees such as alder, spruce, pine and yew, and an associated fauna of beetles, flies, spiders, butterflies and moths. Similar landscapes can be seen in Eastern Canada and Swedish forests today, says Willerslev. (Nature News Service)
Caterpillars Jun 25, 2007
National Geographic for Kids. This technique is bound to fascinate older children who enjoy using digital cameras and can be worked into an art lesson by teachers and home schooling parents. (Suite101.com)
Charles Remington, 85; Yale professor led studies of butterflies, moths Jun 19, 2007
By Thomas H. Maugh II, Times Staff Writer June 19, 2007 Charles Lee Remington, the Yale University entomologist who knew everything there is to know about butterflies and moths and used his studies of lepidoptera to provide crucial insights into the process of evolution, died May 31 in Hamden, Conn ... Remington's expertise with insects was not limited to butterflies and moths the biological order Lepidoptera. (Los Angeles Times)
Charles Remington, 85, butterfly researcher Jun 18, 2007
HARTFORD -- Charles Lee Remington, a leading biologist in the study of butterflies and moths, died May 31 in Hamden. He was 85. (Boston Globe)
BCL hosting author of ‘Butterflies and Moths’ May 18, 2007
Harrison Daily Times - BCL hosting author of ‘Butterflies and Moths’ ... Lifestyle BCL hosting author of Butterflies and Moths Special to the Times 05/17/2007 ... Staff Photo/Lynn Blevins Ginger Collins, of the Boone County Library, holds up the book Arkansas Butterflies and Moths by Lori Spencer. (Buffalo Reflex, MO)
Mountaintop preserve will grow even larger May 6, 2007
The ridge-top barren landscape includes a variety of small trees and low-lying shrubs that serve as a home for birds, butterflies and moths including the globally rare sallow moth and barrens buckmoth. The landscape itself is unique in Pennsylvania. (Scranton Times, PA)
Aiming for winged victory Apr 15, 2007
The entomologist seeks to pique interest in other insects among visitors to an annual exhibit of butterflies and moths at L.A.'s Exposition Park ... In a blur of jewel-like hues, hundreds of butterflies and moths flew freely inside a hall akin to an open-air greenhouse. (Los Angeles Times)
Iran defies UN to join nuclear club Apr 10, 2007
A motif of butterflies and moths lined the corridor to the large conference room alongside slogans such as "Nuclear energy is national capital", "Sustainable energy!". Underground is a system of bunkers where, if Iran has its way, tens of thousands of centrifuges will one day spin hexaflouride gas into uranium fuel for the Bushehr nuclear power station on the Persian Gulf coast. (Independent)
Species Census: 1 Million and Still Counting Apr 10, 2007
The biggest section of the database currently is LepIndex, listing 253,680 species of lepidoptera, which are butterflies and moths. At the small end of the scale is a database that covers 86 species of krill, the tiny shrimplike creatures that whales eat. (Newsmax)
Scientists reach milestone in catalogue of world's species Apr 9, 2007
The biggest section in the catalogue is devoted to butterflies and moths with more than 250,000 species. The one million species catalogued comprise just over half of the world's known species. (ABC News Online, Australia -- Top Stories)
List Of Living Creatures Tops 1 Million Apr 9, 2007
" Having internationally accepted standards for species' names will help researchers compare the diversity of life in various regions of the world and produce uniform catalogues of germs, packets of seeds or genetic resources, he said. Only rarely is there competition among names, such as occurred with sea anemones, hard corals and spiders, and occasionally an element of subjective opinion plays a role among the peer reviewers with various taxonomic expertise, Bisby said. "It can sometimes be... (Tampa Bay Online, FL -- News)
Art Of Butterflies Feb 13, 2007
"On Gossamer Wings: Exploring the Wonder of Butterflies and Moths" is exhibited partly at the Homer D. Babbidge Library and partly at the nearby Thomas J. Dodd Research Center ... In dozens of mounted moth and butterfly specimens, drawn from the A.J. Carpenter Collection of Butterflies and Moths at UConn's Connecticut State Museum of Natural History and displayed at the Babbidge Library, it can seem as if every shade of every color is represented ... At the Dodd center is an exhibition of... (CTNow.com)
To Elude Bats, A Moth Keeps Its Hearing In Tune Dec 31, 2006
Current understanding of the co-evolution of bats and moths has been thrown into question following new research reported in the journal Current Biology. The Yellow Underwing moth. (Science Daily)
Wild Observations Dec 29, 2006
Green lists spiders, beetles, grasshoppers, scale and other foilage damaging insects, caterpillars, weeviles, cutworms, grubs, flying insects, crickets, termites, chinch bugs, butterflies and moths, to name a few. Birds like kinglets, yellow-rumped warblers, wrens, titmice and chickadees search out insect eggs and larvae as well as adult insects. (Williston Pioneer, FL)
A Word Of Warming Dec 22, 2006
"But they didn't have cities, farms and freeways that they had to get across. They can't move fast enough in the way that they need to move.'' ANISE SWALLOWTAIL BUTTERFLY Papilio zelicaon Lucas Coloration and size: Wide yellow band on the forewing and hindwing. Yellow-orange eyespot near tails has round black center. Wing span is 2 3/4 inches to 3 1/2 inches. Life history: Males perch on hilltops and patrol for receptive females. Females lay eggs singly on leaves and flowers of many species in... (San Francisco Chronicle -- Science)
Summer outings are now a memory, but the flame of outdoor recreation lives on in nature and hiking guides. Here are some gift ideas to carry your favorite Rogue Valley adventurer through the winter on quieter ...Expeditionsof words Dec 1, 2006
95) by Peter and Judy Haggard includes photographs of dozens of butterflies and moths, along with pictures of many of them in larval (caterpillar) form. Many of the larvae are as interesting to look at as the brilliantly colored butterflies they become. (Mail Tribune, OR)
Running a B&B for critters Nov 19, 2006
"When we started planting, we targeted butterflies and moths," says Evelyn, an artist who specializes in wildlife art, "but it is still a work in progress. We're continually planting, and there's still a lot to do.". The National Wildlife Federation created its Backyard Habitat program in 1973 and certified 59,000 backyards in 31 years. (Orlando Sentinel)
Invasion of the giant butterflies blown way off course Oct 18, 2006
A mini-invasion of giant butterflies from America has crowned a remarkable season of migrant butterflies and moths flocking to Britain ... The monarchs are striking insects with large orange-and-black wings - but they represent just the final examples of spectacular visitations from butterflies and moths in 2006. (Yahoo News -- Animals & Insects)
SPECIAL SECTION The West's Best Season Oct 5, 2006
The caterpillars of the Western tiger swallowtail and other butterflies and moths dine on the tree's leaves. Even mistletoe, a parasitic plant that clusters in high branches, plays a role in this habitat. (Los Angeles Times)
From four-spotted footmen to lilac beauties, we had a real (moth) ball Sep 16, 2006
Minsmere has recently recorded its thousandth species of butterflies and moths ... And so I left a Minsmere teeming with life, and went back to the real world, a place in which butterflies and moths are in steep decline. (TimesOnline)
Suffolk nature reserve reveals new species of butterflies and moths Sep 16, 2006
"There are parts of the reserve we haven't covered yet. We have a conifer plantation we haven't been to yet, for example, and I'm sure we will find some more species in there." Dr Mark Avery, the RSPB's director of conservation, said: "Minsmere is a great place for birds, but also for a whole range of other wildlife including otters, beetles, snakes and butterflies and moths. The work we do on our nature reserves makes them wonderful places for birds and for wildlife as a whole.". Martin Warren,... (Yahoo News -- Animals & Insects)
Insect festival is Saturday at War Bluff Aug 26, 2006
"All the butterflies and moths he can catch he'll talk about," Frailey said. Sue Dees, a biologist with the Illinois Department of Transportation, will hold a workshop on raising caterpillars into moths and butterflies. (Harrisburg Daily Register, IL)
How does your garden grow? Aug 20, 2006
The butterflies and moths are emerging from their cocoons. Butterflies and moths are insects that have four life stages: egg, larva (caterpillar), pupa (cocoon) and adult ... A shallow depression of any type filled with a mixture of sand, dirt and water is greatly appreciated by butterflies and moths as this is a source of moisture, nutrients and salts. (DeKalb Daily Chronicle, IL)
Weekend guide Aug 3, 2006
BUTTERFLY WORKSHOP: Wonders of Butterflies and Moths, Aug. 13, 2:30 p.m. Lackawanna County Children s Library. Register 348-3000. (Scranton Times, PA)
Naturally Speaking: Cloning - more common than you might think Jul 21, 2006
Do enjoy the display, though, and know that those flowering plants are feeding many beetles, flies, bees, butterflies and moths which, in turn, feed many baby birds that nest and feed among them. Be happy, too, that some of those plants are happily cloning themselves. (Nevada Journal, IA)
Volunteers needed for butterfly count Saturday Jul 20, 2006
Mr. Mello is one the Northeast's leading experts on Lepidoptera (the classification order that contains butterflies and moths) and is co-author of the recently published field guide, "Butterflies Across Cape Cod." The book is available through the Lloyd Center's gift shop or online at www. lloydcenter. (The Standard-Times, MA)
Nature reclaims farm Jul 11, 2006
The one-time muck farm, with its black, peaty soil, is filled with plants and animals, including six species of turtles, eight species of frogs, six species of snakes, 24 species of mammals, 77 species of birds, 13 species of dragonflies and damsel flies and 27 species of butterflies and moths. In 1999, the brothers turned the family's 150-acre farm -- established in 1821 by Joseph Panzner, their German immigrant grandfather -- into what is called a wetland mitigation bank. (Akron Beacon Journal, OH -- Living)
CERCA CALENDAR Jun 25, 2006
Learn the difference between butterflies and moths and ways to attract butterflies to your own backyard. Campground amphitheater. (Las Vegas Review-Journal -- Life)
Ancient Web Weaves Tale of Spiders, Prey Jun 24, 2006
As an example, he pointed out that during the Cretaceous period, butterflies and moths evolved to form loosely attached scales on their bodies and wings. These scales stick to webs and detach from the insects, allowing them to escape. (Q13.com, WA)
UK beetle species 'under threat' Jun 21, 2006
Buglife director Matt Shadlow told BBC News the problems facing beetles had been indicated by research into other invertebrates, such as butterflies and moths, for which better data existed. "The data on butterflies and moths suggests that 70% of the species that occur in the UK are currently in decline," he said. (BBC News)
Before The Butterfly Jun 5, 2006
" The authors gathered their specimens from the forests of Costa Rica, with the help of local gusaneros, caterpillar collectors and rearers. The result of their labors is a collection of stunning large-format photographs that document myriad shapes, colors, textures and cryptic markings. The team describes its book as an expression of art as well as demonstration of science, with a gallery of 100 images framing caterpillars as "beautiful objects unto themselves (Tampa Bay Online, FL -- News)
Britain's changing wildlife Mar 28, 2006
Most of these are flowering plants, but there are also 102 species of bugs and aphids, 101 species of beetle and almost 50 different butterflies and moths. Only four introduced species, including game birds such as pheasant and red-legged partridge, are considered to bring any economic benefit; while many others, such as the Chinese mitten crab, American mink and Japanese knotweed, are known to have harmful economic and biological consequences. (Guardian Unlimited)
Poison Dart Frog Mimics Gain When Birds Learn To Stay Away Mar 14, 2006
-- A caterpillar is the larva form of a lepidopteran (a member of the insect order comprising butterflies and moths). Caterpillars have long segmented bodies and many sets of "legs". (Science Daily)
Hosepipe ban demanded to stem drought Feb 24, 2006
BUTTERFLIES AND MOTHS: Most species do relatively well in a summer drought. GROUND BEETLES: Some do well while others will be more affected by the drought. (The Independent, UK)
