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unusual facts about Butterflies


Late Night Alumni

Of Birds, Bees, Butterflies, Etc., the follow-up album to Empty Streets, was released as a digital download on November 3, 2009, with the physical CD released on February 2, 2010 on Ultra Records.


A Plague of Butterflies

One day a bunch of butterflies came to Amasa to take him on a journey to Hierusalem – the land of the dead.

Acer rubrum

Several Lepidoptera (butterflies and moths) utilize the leaves as food; see List of Lepidoptera that feed on maples.

Amphiesmenoptera

Amphiesmenoptera is an insect superorder, established by Willi Hennig in his revision of insect taxonomy for two sister orders: Lepidoptera (butterflies and moths) and Trichoptera (caddisflies).

Asclepias lanceolata

It serves as a host plant for larvae of monarch, queen, and soldier butterflies (Danaus plexippus, Danaus gilippus, and Danaus eresimus, respectively).

Backyard Wildlife Habitat

A study published in 2004 of the effect on Battus philenor in the San Francisco area found that gardens where the host plants were more than 40 years old, the gardens were as good as natural sites, where the host plants were less than eight years old the species was unlikely to visit, and in between the butterflies laid eggs but these had an inferior survival rate.

Brian Boyd

In the 1990s Boyd edited Nabokov’s English-language fiction and memoirs for the Library of America (3 vols., 1996) and, with lepidopterist Robert Michael Pyle, Nabokov's writings on butterflies (Nabokov's Butterflies, 2000).

Burham Down

Butterflies include chalkhill blue, Brown Argus and silver-spotted skipper; the latter was re-introduced to the site in 1998.

Butterfly evolution

Some researchers theorize that butterflies most likely originated in the Cretaceous period when the continents were arrayed differently from their present positions and with climates unlike those of today.

Of the 220,000 species of Lepidoptera, about 45,000 species are butterflies, which probably evolved from moths.

Byasa daemonius

that belongs to the Windmills genus Byasa, comprising tailed black swallowtail butterflies with white spots and red submarginal crescents.

Chinese knotting

There are many different shapes of Chinese knots, the most common being butterflies, flowers, birds, dragons, fish, and even shoes.

Coedmor National Nature Reserve

Nearly 200 species of lichens have been recorded as being present in the woodland and 31 species of butterflies have been recorded from the reserve or the area around it.

Cosmophasis umbratica

A similar phenomenon is found in some butterflies (for example, several species of Colias and Gonepteryx, both of the family Pieridae).

Covert Way

Part of the site is semi-deciduous woodland which has woodpeckers and muntjac deer, and butterflies including white-letter and purple hair-streaks.

Darlington Provincial Park

It tags Monarch butterflies at its annual migration festival, the Monarchs and Raptors Weekend, held in early September.

Deception in animals

Examples of Batesian mimicry are the several species of butterflies that mimic the toxic Heliconid butterflies.

Echoes in a Shallow Bay

With Fraser's typically indecipherable lyrics it is difficult to be sure, but all the titles on the two EPs seem to have some link with Lepidoptera (butterflies and moths).

Fiona Joy Hawkins

Hawkins is a painter whose works have been exhibited at the Butterflies Gallery in Pokolbin since 1997.

Gegenini

Among others, it contains the butterflies commonly called "swifts" ("Swift moths" belong to the unrelated Hepialidae).

George Lyell

In 1914, together with Gustavus Athol Waterhouse, Lyell published The Butterflies of Australia,a comprehensive description of hundreds of species, including many that had never been described in prior publications.

Glen Canyon Park

Here the main issue appears to be re-establishing the native plant "silver bush lupine", whose leaves are the larval food of these butterflies.

Gran Paradiso National Park

The park supports many species of butterflies including apollos, peak whites, and southern white admirals.

Helianthus decapetalus

The yellow flowers attract many kinds of insects, including bees and butterflies, some of which, such as the Painted Lady and the Silvery Checkerspot, use the plant as a larval host.

Huachuca Mountains

Along the trails there are opportunities to see a number of rare butterflies of Arizona (see List of butterflies and moths of Arizona), as well as plants that are more commonly found in the Sierra Madre Occidental.

James Petiver

He named the White Admiral butterfly, and gave the name Fritillary to another group of butterflies after the Latin word for a chequered dice box.

Jean Baptiste Godart

Born at Origny, Godart became impassioned by butterflies in his youth.

Leafwing

Charaxinae, a subfamily of butterflies commonly known as the Leafwings

Metalmark

Riodinidae, the family of metalmark butterflies (formerly included in the Lycaenidae or "Erycinidae" as subfamily Riodininae)

My Forever

My Forever have a number of successes to their name, their debut single "Silken Butterflies" was named BBC Radio 1's Record of the Week in August 2010, their second single "Always a Stranger" was also named "Record of the Week" on UK based station Amazing Radio.

Nabokov's Butterflies

Nabokov’s Butterflies is a book edited and annotated by Brian Boyd and Robert Michael Pyle that examines and presents Vladimir Nabokov’s passion for butterflies in his literary presentation.

Nisim Aloni

Many of his plays involve royalty, such as The King's Clothes, The American Princess, The Bride and the Hunter of Butterflies (adapted for television by Ram Loevy), Edi King.

Orange Tip

Colotis, a genus of butterflies in the tribe Colotini endemic to Africa and India

Poa pratensis

This species is amongst the foodplants of the caterpillars of the Meadow Brown (Maniola jurtina) and Gatekeeper (Pyronia tithonus) butterflies; the Common Sun Beetle (Amara aenea) (adults feed on the developing seeds), Eupelix cuspidata of the leafhopper family, and Myrmus miriformis, a grassbug (feeds on young blades and developing seeds).

Poa trivialis

The food plant of the caterpillars of small heath Coenonympha pamphilus, Meadow Brown Maniola jurtina, Gatekeeper Butterfly butterflies; Common Sun beetle Amara aenea - adults feed on the developing seeds, Eupelix cuspidata of the leafhopper family, and Myrmus miriformis a grassbug - feeds on young blades and developing seeds.

Rocky Ridge, Ohio

Kenn Kaufman, an American author and ornithologist who has written several guides to birds and butterflies.

Sapindus

Sapindus species are used as food plants by the larvae of some Lepidoptera (moths and butterflies) species including Endoclita malabaricus.

Schouten Islands

The islands also have a number of endemic butterflies and one endemic spider Diolenius angustipes|W.

Slovak Paradise National Park

The National Park contains about 4,000 species of invertebrates, which include more than 2,100 species of butterflies, 400 species of bugs and 150 species of molluscs.

Small Orange Tip

Colotis, a genus of butterflies endemic to Africa and India commonly known as the Orange Tips or Small Orange Tips

Stachytarpheta mutabilis

The butterflies Ornithoptera priamus poseidon and Papilio ulysses have been observed foraging on the plant, as has the bee Amegilla sapiens.

Tay Ping Hui

Being the all rounded artiste, Tay also later performed in the stage play Butterflies are Free, handpicked by Hong Kong film director Clifton Ko.

The Butterfly that Stamped

“The Butterfly that Stamped” is one of the stories that is about King Solomon, his lovely wife Balkis (she is the one he is in love with, and she loves him, in most versions the others are there just because he is king and has to have more wives than anyone else,) his other nine-hundred ninety nine wives, and two charming but quarrelsome butterflies.

The Katurran Odyssey

Butterflies and swifts seem to serve as his messengers and attendants, much like angels.

The Moss

The 85 species of moths and butterflies includes the White-letter Hairstreak.

Troides minos

The larval host plants of these butterflies are small creepers and climbers of the family Aristolochiaceae such as Aristolochia indica, Aristolochia tagala and Thottea siliquosa.

White Butterfly

Pierinae, a subfamily of butterflies commonly called the Whites

Wildlife of the Philippines

One of the largest butterflies in the world and the largest in the Philippines, the Magellan birdwing can be found here.


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