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News (Archive) | May 2004
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The man who named 2,000 butterflies — — [20 May 2004 | 10:00 GMT] The date — same as today; the year — 1883; the place — Florence, Italy; the event — the birth of the eminent lepidopterist Roger (Ruggero) Verity, the man who named about 2,000 taxa of butterflies... [Full story] How many butterflies are protected in Bulgaria? — — [16 May 2004 | 11:05 GMT] Currently, three species of butterflies are protected in Bulgaria — Apollo (Parnassius apollo), Balkan Clouded Yellow (Colias caucasica balcanica) and Nicholl’s Ringlet (Erebia rhodopensis). This number is expected to increase... [Full story] Butterflies & moths on the WWW | Headlines Researcher probes rare butterfly’s world — Ann Arbor News, Ann Arbor, MI, USA — 31 May 2004 EMU student gathers data on Mitchell’s Satyr, which lives in 19 prairie fens, most of them in Michigan... They spread their wings and prepare to fly — Lompoc Record, Lompoc, CA, USA — 30 May 2004 They seem to appear out of nowhere — delicate butterflies fluttering by on their gossamer wings, flitting from one flower to the next, always in motion... Bands, butterflies return for summer at Turtle Bay — Record-Searchlight, Redding, CA, USA — 27 May 2004 Things are heating up again at Turtle Bay Exploration Park. On Friday, the park opens its popular Butterfly House Exhibit and kicks off its second season of live music on the patio overlooking the new Sundial Bridge... Butterflies topic at Melrose Library — Bradford County Telegraph, Starke, FL, USA — 27 May 2004 The Greathouse family has developed a successful agribusiness near Earleton raising which sells 45 species of native butterflies, shipping them all over the US... UF scientists release rare Miami Blue butterflies in effort to revive species — South Florida Sun-Sentinel, Fort Lauderdale, FL, USA — 27 May 2004 About 500 caterpillars of the rare Miami Blue butterfly were released Wednesday at Everglades and Biscayne national parks, in a major effort to restore a species once thought extinct in Florida... Relay for Life — Murray County News, Slayton, MN, USA — 26 May 2004 A monarch butterfly release will be one of the highlights of the opening ceremony at the 9th Annual Murray County Relay for Life Team Event on August 14 at the Murray County Fairgrounds in Slayton... A haven for butterflies — and select weeds — thrives in Sebastopol — San Francisco Chronicle, San Francisco, CA, USA — 26 May 2004 Blooming nectar plants grow in tandem with less alluring yet indispensable weeds like stinging nettle, plantain and crab grass at Hallberg Butterfly Gardens in Sebastopol, a verdant haven for buckeyes, red admirals, painted ladies and cabbage whites... Author keeps lookout for butterfly sites — The Register-Guard, Eugene, Oregon, USA — 24 May 2004 As a 9-year-old, Neil Bjorklund wandered with his father in a wildflower meadow high on Steens Mountain, spellbound by the hundreds of orange-and-black winged Milbert’s Tortoiseshell butterflies he found there... Spraying to control gypsy moths could begin today — Green Bay Press Gazette, Green Bay, WI, USA — 23 May 2004 If the weather holds up, the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources will begin spraying to control gypsy moths in Northeastern Wisconsin as soon as today... Get social with the butterflies at Woodland Park Zoo — Seattle Post Intelligencer, Seattle, WA, USA — 21 May 2004 Woodland Park Zoo’s seasonal Butterflies & Blooms exhibit is back for its seventh year, letting visitors experience the beauty of butterflies and their food source, flowering plants... Tent caterpillar march just part of natural cycle — Gulf Islands, Salt Spring Island, British Columbia, Canada — 19 May 2004 Pesky tent caterpillars are plaguing Salt Spring this season as they eat their way across the island... Watch for Black Cutworm — High Plains Journal, Dodge City, KS, USA — 19 May 2004 Omaha (DTN) — With most of the corn planted nationwide and more than 40 percent emerged, growers should check with their state extension entomology network to see if the black cutworm has reached the fourth-instar stage and when it will be feeding on corn plants, which is when it’s time to start scouting... Aerial sprayings scheduled to combat gypsy moths — Chicago Daily Herald, Chicago, IL, USA — 19 May 2004 To combat increasing numbers of gypsy moths throughout portions of McHenry County and elsewhere in northern Illinois, the state Department of Agriculture is taking to the air... Butterflies to swamp Kullu valley — New Kerala, Ernakulam, Kerala, India — 18 May 2004 The picturesque Kullu valley will be flooded with myriad coloured butterflies this season — courtesy a Rs.3 million ($67,000) breeding project... Big crowd releases hundreds of butterflies — Gainesville Times, Gainesville, GA, USA — 17 May 2004 Little Grace Jenkins held the envelope gently in her hands. She opened it, then squealed in delight... Over time, beautiful moths emerge from colorful metamorphosis — Kansas City Star, Kansas City, MO, USA — 16 May 2004 Eleven months ago, sometime during the night of June 12 last year, a Cecropia silkmoth deposited her eggs on the glass of our kitchen door... Beautiful butterflies beckon bikers — Penn Live, Harrisburg, PA, USA — 16 May 2004 Butterflies, especially the big and showy swallowtails, love Pumping Station Road in northern Lancaster County... Gypsy moth spraying areas listed — Green Bay News Chronicle, Green Bay, WI, USA — 15 May 2004 Seven blocks in Green Bay will be sprayed in late May or early June to prevent gypsy moths from defoliating trees... Moth spraying begins next week — Monroe Times, Monroe, WI, USA — 14 May 2004 Madison — Yellow spray planes will soon take to the sky to battle gypsy moths in southwest Wisconsin as part of the effort by the Wisconsin Cooperative gypsy moth program to slow the spread of the destructive forest pest... These butterflies are free — The Robesonian, Lumberton, NC, USA — 14 May 2004 Lumberton — Five-year-old Katlyn Gaddy knows the difference between a butterfly and a moth... Sholan Farm adds butterflies to bill for this year’s Apple Blossom Festival — Fitchburg Sentinel, Fitchburg, MA, USA — 13 May 2004 Leominster — More than 100 butterflies will soar above the apple blossoms and dandelions this Saturday at what has become the city’s largest spring event — The Apple Blossom Festival at Sholan Farm... Flying colors: Butterflies to create learning habitat — The Grand Rapids Press, Grand Rapids, MI, USA — 13 May 2004 Some Palmer Elementary students have turned a patch of grass outside their school into what they hope becomes a thriving butterfly habitat... Butterfly garden Planting the right flowers to attract butterflies — Norwich Bulletin, Norwich, CT, USA — 13 May 2004 Butterflies add beauty and interest to our gardens. But what are they doing out there... A banquet for butterflies — Tallahassee Democrat, Tallahassee, FL, USA — 13 May 2004 If you want monarch butterflies in your yard, you’d better plant plenty of milkweed... Open house encourages having butterflies — Lawrence Journal World, Lawrence, KS, USA — 13 May 2004 Last year, Chip Taylor underestimated the public’s interest in milkweed, the wildflower — a “weed,” some would say — that attracts monarch butterflies... State casts net for gypsy moths — Oregonian, Portland, OR, USA — 12 May 2004 In search of gypsy moths, three seasonal agency employees will put about 1,500 tent-shaped green or orange cardboard traps on vegetation in the Sandy and Estacada areas in the next two months... Fly-by-night armyworm moths raise invasion alert — Agriculture.com, USA — 11 May 2004 Columbia, Mo. — High numbers of armyworm moths captured in light traps at night indicate the crop pest has potential for damage, says Wayne Bailey, University of Missouri Extension entomologist... Gypsy moths back in droves — DetNews.com, Detroit, MI, USA — 11 May 2004 After a few years’ reprieve, gypsy moth caterpillars are back in droves in Metro Detroit this year, triggering the need for widespread spraying... 500 Rare Butterflies Discovered in Ore. — Worcester Telegram, Worcester, MA, USA — 10 May 2004 Corvallis, Ore. — About 500 rare butterflies were recently found thriving in the hills west of here, thrilling conservationists who hope the colorful Taylor’s checkerspot will fight back from near extinction... Fremont festival allows children to mingle with insects... — The Argus, Fremont, CA, USA — 9 May 2004 A group of enthralled children looked on as three dozen bright orange monarch butterflies took to the sky Saturday at the Coyote Hills Regional Park... Butterflies are back — Cincinnati Post, Cincinnati, OH, USA — 7 May 2004 Like the creatures it showcases, the butterfly exhibition at Krohn Conservatory has undergone a true metamorphosis... Butterflies and Other Bits of Nabokov’s Life, Dispersed to the Wind — New York Times, USA — 6 May 2004 To Vladimir Nabokov’s favorite translator and only son, the thought of selling the books his father so intricately annotated with fantasy butterflies and personal asides was distressing, but it had to be done... Deposing a Monarch from his Throne in the Sky — Islam Online, UK — 5 May 2004 One of the world’s most spectacular biological events, the migration and the over-wintering behavior of the Monarch Butterfly, Danaus plexippus, is under serious threat... Butterflies: Fascinating and free of charge — Orange Leader, Orange, TX, USA — 5 May 2004 Naturalists John and Gloria Tveten will unravel the mysterious beauty of butterflies Monday in a Natural History Series at the Lutcher Theater in downtown Orange... Bantimurung’s butterflies still caught in the net — Jakarta Post, Indonesia — 4 May 2004 Bantimurung is wedged in the mountains 41 kilometers north of Makassar in South Sulawesi... Butterflies have beauty and brains, too — Hampton Roads Daily Press, Newport, VA, USA — 2 May 2004 You admire butterflies for their beauty and grace. Now you can respect them for their brains... |
