Las Hermanas Mirabals, also known as the Mirabal sisters, a group of four Dominican political dissidents active in the 1960s
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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.
The Caper Whites are the butterflies in the genus Belenois.
Trail and Brugger's search for the butterflies is dramatized in the IMAX film Flight of the Butterflies.
Large groups of adults of subspecies E. q. rhodosensis can be found on occasion aestivating (sheltering from the summer heat) in Petaloudes, on Rhodes, in a place that has become known as the 'Valley of the Butterflies'.
Classic examples of this are the already mentioned Distal-less gene, which is responsible for appendage formation in both tetrapods and insects, or, at a finer scale, the generation of wing patterns in the butterflies Heliconius erato and Heliconius melpomene.
Hawkins is a painter whose works have been exhibited at the Butterflies Gallery in Pokolbin since 1997.
Among others, it contains the butterflies commonly called "swifts" ("Swift moths" belong to the unrelated Hepialidae).
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.
Lionel G. Higgins and Norman D. Riley (1988) Field Guide to the Butterflies of Britain and Europe Collins, London
The plant genus Klugia (now called Rhynchoglossum, Family Gesneriaceae) was named in his honour as well as the butterflies Geitoneura klugii and Heliophisma klugii.
The following year his naturalist travel journal Chasing Monarchs: Migrating with the Butterflies of Passage traced his discovery of previously unnoticed monarch migration patterns.
The butterflies feed on blossoms of such plants as the ground-elder, Eupatorium, Valeriana, and burnet saxifrage.
The butterflies drink nectar from the flowers of the Wild Thyme and the caterpillars eat the leaves of Rock Rose, the areas in which these two plants grow are protected from sheep grazing by fencing.
The butterflies Ornithoptera priamus poseidon and Papilio ulysses have been observed foraging on the plant, as has the bee Amegilla sapiens.
Founded originally under the name Silver Bug and then simply Bug in the late 1990s by singer-songwriters Jeff and Dan Greene (no relation, though they attended Hamilton College together), The Butterflies of Love have released two albums on US-based Coffeehouse Records and two albums on British independent label Fortuna Pop! Their fifth single, It's Different Now was made Single Of The Week in the NME.