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News (Archive) | October 2004
Butterflies & moths on the WWW | Headlines
A Rainbow Of Butterflies — Tampa Tribune — Tampa, FL, USA — 22 Oct 2004 Miami blues are among the rarest. Malachites and great eggflies are two of the most popular... Bees and Moths as Bomb Detectors: Can entomologists manipulate insects to confound terrorist attacks? — Torontofreepress.com — Toronto, Ontario, Canada — 19 Oct 2004 ‘Till Mother Nature vetoes/The bees and mosquitoes/Mother Nature is no mother of mine,’ sang Oscar Levant in Weekend In The Country from The Barkleys of Broadway (1948), the last pairing of Ginger Rogers and Fred Astaire. Had Oscar Levant known bees could protect us from terrorists, he might have reconsidered... Butterflies fly higher as Earth heats up — Khaleej Times — Dubai, United Arab Emirates — 16 Oct 2004 Butterflies fluttering in central Europe’s mountains may be giving a silent warning that the planet is heating up... Lights dimmed for pesky bogong moths — Ninemsn — Sydney, NSW, Australia — 15 Oct 2004 The lights flooding Parliament House in Canberra will be dimmed for the next couple of months to try to encourage bogong moths to reach their destination in the Australian Alps rather than infest Capital Hill... Monarch butterflies head south for the winter — Newington Town Crier — Newington, CT, USA — 14 Oct 2004 If you were to look up towards the clouds around Anna Reynolds Elementary School on Oct. 1, you would have witnessed monarch butterflies fluttering towards the sky as they started on their long migration to Mexico... Butterfly Conservation Initiative Welcomes 50th Member, Strengthening Efforts to Protect Endangered Butterflies — U.S. Newswire — Washington, DC, USA — 13 Oct 2004 The American Zoo and Aquarium Association (AZA) welcomed the Como Park and Conservatory in St. Paul, Minn. as the 50th participating member of the Butterfly Conservation Initiative (BFCI) at its annual conference in New Orleans, La. in Sept. Since then, the BFCI has continued on to surpass this landmark in growth, claiming the Zoological Society of San Diego as its 51st participating organization in Oct. The BFCI brings together non-governmental organizations and government agencies to aid the recovery of imperiled butterflies in North America... Butterflies’ trip is off to slow start — Fort Worth Star Telegram — Fort Worth, TX, USA — 9 Oct 2004 Scientists from Kansas to Texas are befuddled why the monarch butterfly, which generally migrates by the millions through the Lone Star State by early October en route to its winter home in Mexico, is relatively scarce... Butterflies are free — San Jose Mercury News, San Jose, CA, USA — 6 Oct 2004 A celebration marking the yearly return of thousands of monarch butterflies to the eucalyptus groves at Natural Bridges State Park in Santa Cruz... Visiting Royalty — Scientific American, USA — 5 Oct 2004 Monarchs from Maine and Michigan wait out the winter on a Mexican mountainside... Butterfly ballyhoo: Students receive hands-on education about butterflies — Brownsville Herald, Brownsville, TX, USA — 4 Oct 2004 Cromack Elementary first-grade students giggled as they stood in awe of the thousands of butterflies that flittered and fluttered around them inside the mesh tent that lay on the school grounds... Chasing butterflies: State studies endangered species — The Union Leader, Manchester, NH, USA — 4 Oct 2004 Life isn’t easy at the top of Mount Washington, where the wind stops the breath in your lungs and grown men cling to railings... Teacher finds art, gardening connection — SunHerald.com, Biloxi, MS, USA — 2 Oct 2004 Biloxi High School art teacher Paulette Dove, who lives in the West Biloxi area, says she loves to spread gardening and considers gardening and art as being ‘all kind of interrelated.’... Meade County insects: Monarch Butterfly — Dodge City Daily Globe, Dodge City, KS, USA — 1 Oct 2004 With the shortened days of fall, migration begins. Most people associate fall migration with flocks of ducks and geese winging their way south, but other creatures migrate south as well. One of these long distance migrants is the Monarch Butterfly... |
