The Butterfly Celebration An alternative to throwing rice, release live butterflies at your wedding. http://www.butterflycelebration.com/
Attracting Butterflies To Your Yard - Backyard Wildlife Habitat Attracting butterflies to your backyard. Brightly colored butterflies can be a welcome addition to your Backyard Wildlife Habitat landscape. http://www.nwf.org/backyardwildlifehabitat/attractbutterflies.cfm
Extractions: Tips and Projects Butterfly facts Brightly colored butterflies can be a welcome addition to your Backyard Wildlife Habitat landscape. To attract the greatest number of butterflies and have them as residents in your yard you will need to have plants that serve the needs of all life stages of the butterfly. They need a place to lay eggs, food plants for the larva (caterpillar), a place to form a chrysalis, and nectar sources for the adult. Most adult butterflies live 10-20 days. Some, however, are believed to live no longer than three or four days, while others, such as overwintering monarchs, may live six months. More than 700 species of butterflies are found in North America. Very few are agricultural pests. Adult butterflies range in size from the half-inch pigmy blue found in southern California to the giant female Queen Alexandra's birdwing of New Guinea, which measures about 10 inches from wing tip to wing tip. Butterfly tarsi or "feet" possess a sense similar to taste. Contact with sweet liquids such as nectar causes the proboscis to uncoil. Millions of shinglelike, overlapping scales give butterfly wings their color and patterns. Metallic, irridescent hues come from faceted scales that refract light; solid colors are from pigmented scales. During the time from hatching to pupating (forming the pupa or chrysalis), the caterpillar may increase its body size more than 30,000 times. The chrysalises or pupae of many common gossamer wings - a group of butterflies which includes the blues, hairstreaks and elfins - are capable of producing weak sounds. By flexing and rubbing together body segment membranes, sounds are generated that may frighten off small predators and parasites.
Dave Britton's Insect Photos Images of butterflies, moths, and other insects, mainly from Australia. http://www-personal.une.edu.au/~dbritton/bugpics.htm
Caterpillars Of Australian Butterflies Stella Crossley. (updated 14 March 2005). Australia is home to about 416 species of butterflies from five families. PAPILIONIDAE http://linus.socs.uts.edu.au/~don/larvae/butter.html
Butterflies Of Greater Sydney In the 1970 s, when Don lived in Manly, these butterflies would regularly visit, One of the most common Sydney butterflies in midlate spring, http://linus.socs.uts.edu.au/~don/larvae/sydbuts.html
Extractions: Stewart Newman ( msummerf@bigpond.net.au (updated 9 August 2004) This list is derived largely from Kelvyn and Lawrence Dunns' "Review of Australian Butterflies" which was definitely a labour of love. They examined every specimen from most of the major collections or were supplied this information by the owners, and collated the data from dozens of private collections as well, totalling a staggering 86,621 records of butterflies collected in Australia. The rest of the info is from Alexander Burns "Butterflies in Colour", Charles MacCubbins "Australian Butterflies", and from our own somewhat vague memories and notes. The following species are the ones recorded in the greater Sydney area (the Wollongong-Katoomba-Gosford triangle): PAPILIONIDAE It is very difficult to differentiate between this species and Graphium sarpedon in flight or at a distance when feeding, which is a problem as it is a very active species. It has been found in Waverley, and Stewart observed adults at Berowra in April 2003. There was also a small population at Revesby Heights, where they could be seen on sunny days in February/April visiting the local Buddleias there, although ecofreaks have removed many of the Buddleias in that area, so that population may now be extinct. Sydney is its absolute southern limit. However, some were seen on Buddleia flowers in Narraweena in February 2004.
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Milkweed Cafe's Nature Site Offers informational books about raising, celebrating with and gardening for butterflies,as well as raising kits and gifts. http://www.milkweedcafe.com/
ORNITHOPTERA/Insect Supplier & Entomological Equipmen A trader of entomological equipment (pins, butterfly nets, forceps, spreading boards) and dried butterflies, moths, and insects from around the world. http://www.chez.com/ornithoptera/
Lesson Exchange: Monarch Butterflies (Elementary, Science) Monarch butterflies. Science, level Elementary Monarch butterflies. Written by Elaine Bishop, Grundy Center Community Schools, Grundy Center, IA http://www.teachers.net/lessons/posts/393.html
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NSiS: Florida Butterflies Information about Florida s butterflies and butterfly gardening with native plants. http://www.nsis.org/butterfly/
The International Lepidoptera Survey An organization devoted to discovering and describing new species and forms of butterflies and moths. Includes sample issues of The Taxonomic Report, an extensive photo gallery of type specimens, and lists of scientific and common names of the US and Canada. http://www.tils-ttr.org/
Blooming Butterflies Blooming butterflies . . . discovering the life cycle butterflies are beautiful insects!! They re wings have vibrant colors and allow them to soar all http://its.guilford.k12.nc.us/webquests/butterflies/butterflies.htm
Extractions: Blooming Butterflies . . . discovering the life cycle Metamorphosis Introduction Task Process Resources ... Conclusion Introduction: Butterflies are beautiful insects!! They're wings have vibrant colors and allow them to soar all over the USA. It takes about 10-15 days before a butterfly comes to life and you will discover how!! back to top The Task: To learn and explore how a butterfly comes to life through "Metamorphosis" back to top The Process: (What to do) At the computer: Read all directions before you click - Print out this worksheet to use as you explore the stages click on the for e gg (see how small the egg is on a leaf) Remember to click BACK . . .
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The Official Site Of The Telepathic Butterflies butterfly news biography upcoming shows discography songs photo gallery interviews reviews gig history contact and order info links. http://www.telepathicbutterflies.com/
Butterflies In Bloom butterflies by Flower Name Life Cycle Gallery http//aggiehorticulture.tamu.edu/plantanswers/butterflies/ November 9, 2003. http://aggie-horticulture.tamu.edu/plantanswers/butterflies/
Extractions: Butterflies in bloom is a photographic essay on the relationship between butterflies and flowering ornamental plants. The photos were taken during the late summer and early fall of 2003 by Dr. Jerry Parsons and his able assistant Forrest Appleton. Photos can be viewed as a whole collection in the Butterfly Gallery, sorted by butterfly name, sorted by flower name, or as a special feature showing all the stages in insect metamorphosis.
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How Butterflies Fly Thousands Of Miles Without Getting Lost While navigation systems in automobiles are a fairly new (and still costly) innovation, monarch butterflies have managed for millennia to navigate their way http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2005/07/050731232627.htm
Extractions: Source Hebrew University Of Jerusalem Date Print this page Email to friend While navigation systems in automobiles are a fairly new (and still costly) innovation, monarch butterflies have managed for millennia to navigate their way for a distance of some 3000 miles (4800 kilometers) each fall from Canada to Mexico (and vice-versa in the spring) without losing their way. Related News Stories How Butterflies Fly Thousands Of Miles Without Getting Lost (August 1, 2005) While navigation systems in automobiles are a fairly new (and still costly) innovation, monarch butterflies have managed for millennia to navigate their way for a distance of some 3000 miles (4800 ... full story Body Clocks Keep Migrating Monarchs On Course; Butterfly Flight Simulator Sheds Light On Epic Migration (May 23, 2003) During their winter migration to Mexico, monarch butterflies depend on an internal clock to help them navigate in relation to the sun, scientists have ...
