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21 unusual facts about butterfly


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.

Bird Week

The player must feed butterflies to the baby birds so that they can grow big and eventually leave the nest.

Butterfly wings

See Butterfly for information about the wings of butterflys themselves.

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.

Eutrochium fistulosum

It flowers from mid-summer to the first frosts, makes an attractive backdrop in garden plots, and is very attractive to butterflies, bees, and other nectar-feeding insects.

Fort Lapwai

The word "Lapwai" means place of the butterflies, as the area had thousands in early summer in earlier years.

Francis Kodankandath

The sculptures are placed over the background, giving the motifs and the core ideas of the paintings as butterflies, flowers, spiders, and elephants.

Mary Mohler

Currently, she is ranked first in the series and obtaining best times for her Butterfly events.

Mohler started the new year with six gold medals, one silver medal, and an American short course record for the 200 yard Butterfly 1:51.28.

She attended Rosary High School in Aurora, Illinois where she was best known for being the Illinois High School Association state champion for the 100 yard Butterfly from 1998 to 2001.

As the reigning NCAA four-time champion in the 200 meter Butterfly event, it was an upset that DeScenza didn't qualify under this event.

Mohler was a two-time state champion in the 200 yard Freestyle, a four-time state champion in the 100 yard Butterfly, and a two-time state champion in the 200 yard Medley Relay.

She just missed a spot on the team by coming in fourth place, top two make the team, in the 200 meter Butterfly.

Other events Mohler failed to qualify in were the 100 meter Freestyle nor the 100 meter Butterfly.

Miniature Lop

Agouti, Black, Blue, Brown, Butterfly, Chinchilla, Fawn, Fox, Opal, Orange, Sable Marten, Sealpoint, Siamese Sable, Siamese Smoke, Sooty Fawn, Steel, White

Paston Way

Knapton Cutting, as this part of the trail is known, is also a nature and Butterfly reserve.

Science North

Jean MacLeod Butterfly Gallery - This glass-enclosed gallery is home to more than 400 butterflies from 30 different tropical species.

Songgo Langit Waterfall

Surrounding this waterfall can be found a variety of Butterfly.

Tan Lee Yu Gary

On 24 June 2005 at the 1st Singapore National Swimming Championship he won the Men 200 LC Meters Butterfly with the time of 02:04.00 which is a record in Singapore.

The Butterjunk Effect

At a butterfly preserve on Kif's home planet, they are told to beware the male butterflies by the Grand Butterfly Curator.


A. asiatica

Albulina asiatica, the azure mountain blue, a small butterfly species found in the Himalayas

African Small White

Dixeia doxo, a butterfly endemic to Africa's east coast and large parts of central Africa

Anacamptis pyramidalis

To ensure the fertilization, their morphology is well adapted to the proboscis of Lepidoptera, especially Euphydryas, Melanargia, Melitaea, Pieris and Zygaena species.

Aristolochia rotunda

This species is the only host plant of the caterpillars of a beautiful uncommon butterfly (Zerynthia polyxena).

Atewa Range

Butterfly species include the Papilio antimachus, which has the widest wingspan in the world and the Mylothris atewa, which may be globally critically endangered.

Black River Falls, Wisconsin

The Black River Falls area is home to a large population of the endangered Karner Blue butterfly.

Bog

Bogs even have distinctive insects; English bogs give a home to a yellow fly called the hairy canary fly (Phaonia jaroschewskii), and bogs in North America are habitat for a butterfly called the bog copper (Lycaena epixanthe).

Butterfly Economics

Butterfly Economics: A New General Theory of Social and Economic Behavior is a book by Paul Ormerod dealing with economic theory, published in 1999.

Butterfly Garden, Grevenmacher

The Butterfly Garden or Jardin des Papillons is located in Grevenmacher in eastern Luxembourg.

Calliteara pudibunda

The Dutch common name for the moth (Meriansborstel) is named for famous butterfly and insect painter Anna Maria Sibylla Merian.

Camden Children's Garden

The facility includes indoor attractions such as the Philadelphia Eagles Four Seasons Butterfly House, Plaza de Aibonito, a Puerto Rican tropical greenhouse exhibit, and Benjamin Franklin’s Secret Garden and Workshop.

Centaurea nigra

Important for Gatekeeper butterfly, Goldfinch, Honey bee, Large skipper, Lime-speck pug moth, Meadow Brown, Painted lady, Peacock, Red admiral, Small copper, Small skipper

Coffea

Coffee is used as a food plant by the larvae of some Lepidoptera (butterfly and moth) species, Dalcera abrasa, turnip moth and some members of the genus Endoclita, including E. damor and E. malabaricus.

Coldingham Bay

The south facing slope of the Knoll has seen sightings of the Small Blue butterfly and its sole larval foodplant Kidney Vetch Anthyllis vulneraria grows there.

Dingy Skipper

This well camouflaged, brown and grey butterfly can be confused with the Grizzled Skipper, the Mother Shipton Moth or the Burnet Companion Moth.

Dioptis aeliana

It is part of a mimicry complex with Brevioleria aelia (the butterfly that led Bates to name the species), Hyposcada illinissa, Napeogenes sylphis, Oleria gunilla and Oleria ilerdina.

Endiandra discolor

The leaves of Endiandra discolor provide food for the larvae of the Macleay's Swallowtail butterfly.

Eunomia

Boloria eunomia (formerly Proclossiana eunomia eunomia), scientific names for the Bog Fritillary butterfly

Godrevy Head to St Agnes

The site contains 25 species of butterfly and 15 dragonfly and damselfly species, which include the nationally scarce varieties of silver-studded blue (Plebejus argus) and blue-tailed damselfly (Ischnura pumilio).

Gran Paradiso National Park

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

Hans Christian Andersen bibliography

Anden Samling (New fairy-tales and stories. - Second series. Second collection) ("The Ice-Maiden", "The Butterfly", "The Psyche", "The Snail and the Rosebush"), C.A. Reitzel Publishers, 1862 (appeared 25 November 1861).

Ichneumonoidea

An example is the parasitic wasp Ichneumon eumerus, which parasitizes the butterfly Phengaris rebeli.

Iowa Arboretum

The arboretum contains hundreds of species of trees, shrubs, and flowers arranged in 19 collections (40 acres) as follows: Butterfly Garden, Children's Garden, Columnar Trees, Conifers, Dwarf Garden, Flowering Trees, Founders Grove, Herbs, Hostas, Large Deciduous Trees, Medium Deciduous Trees, Nut Trees, Perennials, Shade Garden, Shrubs, Trees under Utility Wires, Wetland Trees, Windbreak, and Winter Interest.

Kosovo je Srbija

In March 2008, American-born Serbian swimmer Milorad Čavić won the European championship in the 50m butterfly, setting the new European record, a result briefly quashed when the European Swimming Federation (LEN) disqualified the swimmer for wearing a T-shirt at the medals ceremony that read “Kosovo is Serbia” in Cyrillic.

Mikania natalensis

The butterfly Actinote thalia was considered for the biological control of Chromolaena odorata in southern Africa, but permission to release this control agent was not sought because the larvae were found to consume the leaves of Mikania natalensis.

New Jersey Meadowlands Commission

These parks include Richard W. DeKorte Park in Lyndhurst, home to a butterfly garden, World Trade Center Memorial, overlook of New York City, several trails, and the NJMC's Meadowlands Environment Center.

Nikolay Rumyantsev

As a result, his name came to be attached to such exotic things as Spiranthes romanzoffiana, a North American orchid, Papilio rumanzovia, a large butterfly from the Philippines, and was, between 1812 and 1842 the Russian name (залив Румянцева) for present day Bodega Bay, California.

Papilio amynthor

The Norfolk Swallowtail (Papilio amynthor) is a butterfly of the Papilionidae family, that is found in New Caledonia, Loyalty Islands and Norfolk Island.

Parnassius Guccinii

The title is a reference to a butterfly subspecies discovered in 1992 by an Italian entomologist, which was named Parnassius mnemosyne guccinii after the singer-songwriter.

Parnassius hardwickii

This butterfly is found from the Chitral District to Sikkim and is found from 6000 ft to 17,000 ft, making it one of the most commonly encountered species of Apollo in the Indian subcontinent.

Peleides

Morpho peleides/Peleides Blue Morpho, an iridescent tropical butterfly

Petcu

Răzvan Petcu (born 1973), retired Romanian freestyle and butterfly swimmer

Phylace

Amblyscirtes phylace, a species of butterfly of the Hesperiidae family

Polygonia c-aureum

The Asian Comma (Polygonia c-aureum) is a middle-size butterfly found in Japan (from Hokkaidō to Tanegashima), Korean Peninsula, China, Taiwan, and Indochina.

Princesa Sujei

The butterfly design on her wrestling mask came from one of her trainers who said she would fly high like a Monarch butterfly.

Robert Kerns

Robert Kerns made relatively few recordings, the best known being Madama Butterfly, opposite Mirella Freni, Luciano Pavarotti, Christa Ludwig, under Herbert von Karajan.

Samanala Sandhawaniya

Samanala Sandhwaniya (සමනල සංධ්වනිය ), also known as Butterfly Symphony is a 2013 Romantic film directed by Jayantha Chandrasiri and starring Yashoda Wimaladharma, Uddika Premarathna, Pubudu Chathuranga, Wilson Gunarathne, Punsiri Dayaruwan, Buddhadasa Withanachchi, Roger Seneviratne and Chathurika Peiris.

Scolitantides orion

The butterfly lives in rocky areas up to 1000 m of altitude, on plants such as Sedum telephium and Sedum album.

Small White

Pieris rapae, a butterfly commonly known as the Cabbage, Cabbage White, or Small White

Susan Shields

She represented the United States as a 16-year-old at the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City, where she received a bronze medal for her third-place performance in the 100-meter butterfly, finishing behind Australian Lyn McClements and fellow American Ellie Daniel.

T. aureus

Teinopalpus aureus, the golden kaiserihind, a butterfly species found in China and possibly Vietnam

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.

Tragia glabrata

This species is one of the larval foodplants of four species of butterfly; Eurytela hiarbas, Eurytela dryope, Byblia ilithyia and Byblia anvatara.

Vlastimil Černý

Vlastimil Černý (born April 7, 1963 in Vyškov, Czechoslovakia) is a former international butterfly and freestyle swimmer, who competed for Canada at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea.

Washington Irving Memorial Park and Arboretum

The park contains a wooded walking trail, the Laci Dawn Griffin Hill butterfly garden, and memorials to the children of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building bombing and to the September 11, 2001 attacks.