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News (Archive) | March 2005
Butterflies & moths on the WWW | Headlines
Butterflies fill Kern County Sky — KGET 17, Bakersfield, CA, USA — 29 Mar 2005 Bakersfield — There is an unusual invasion of winged creatures beautifying the California landscape this week... Swarms of butterflies migrate from desert — Davis Enterprise, Davis, CA, USA — 29 Mar 2005 Millions of painted lady butterflies were flitting and fluttering through Davis and the rest of the Central Valley on Monday in a massive annual migration from California’s southern deserts... Painted lady butterflies migrate through North County — North County Times, Escondido, CA, USA — 26 Mar 2005 North County — The spring forecast must have called for butterfly flurries Saturday. The orange, brown, black and white butterflies, known as Painted Ladies, fluttered along the coastal areas heading north from Baja to the deserts, said butterfly expert David Marriott, who runs the Monarch Program in Encinitas... Georgia butterfly center finishes its own metamorphosis — Access North Georgia, Gainesville, GA, USA — 26 Mar 2005 Fresh from its own six month, $2 million metamorphosis, the Cecil B. Day Butterfly Center has reopened at Callaway Gardens, a 14,000-acre nature and recreation center in the Appalachian foothills... Butterflies invade the desert, looking for wildflower nectar — KES, Palm Desert, CA, USA — 24 Mar 2005 Butterflies have invaded the desert and while they may be beautiful to look at, they’re not as much fun to clean off the windshield. But this is just the first wave... Sir John Dacie — Times Online, UK — 17 Mar 2005 Sir John Dacie was an internationally famous haematologist who specialised in diseases of the blood, principally leukaemia, the cancer of the tissues that produce blood cells... Danger at flight’s end for Mexico’s monarchs — International Herald Tribune, France — 15 Mar 2005 Contepes, Mexico — Homero Aridjis, a poet and naturalist, can remember years when monarch butterflies filled the streets here in his hometown like a living torrent of orange and black and stayed all winter on the fir-covered mountain rising above the village... ‘Rainforest’ opens Monday in Gainesville — Daytona Beach News-Journal, Daytona, FL, USA — 10 Mar 2005 Hundreds of colorful butterflies will be at home in the Florida Museum of Natural History’s Butterfly Rainforest when it opens Monday in Gainesville... Visitors flocking to Butterfly Place — Monterey County Herald, Monterey, CA, USA — 6 Mar 2005 The butterfly settled almost unnoticed on Tina Parks’ braided hair. Its black-and-white wings stirred occasionally as a reminder that it was no mere fashion accessory... Zoo’s butterfly exhibit puts visitors in flutter — Florida Today, Melbourne, FL, USA — 6 Mar 2005 Time after time, eyes widened with excitement as visitors walked through the butterfly garden... Butterflies Can Talk — Brockton News, Brockton, MA, USA — 5 Mar 2005 Butterflies may seem like the quietest of creatures, but a University of Florida researcher has uncovered new evidence that many of the colorful insects actually spend much of their time ‘talking’ to each other... Biologists fret as Mexico butterfly numbers dive — Reuters AlertNet, London, UK — 3 Mar 2005 A plunge in the number of monarch butterflies migrating from the United States and Canada to Mexican winter colonies has experts worried logging and pesticides are endangering the fragile insects... Butterflies in all their glory — CNN, USA — 3 Mar 2005 The butterfly settled almost unnoticed on Tina Parks’ braided hair. Its black-and-white wings stirred occasionally as a reminder that it was no mere fashion accessory... Emory study finds monarch health tied to migration — EurekAlert, Washington, DC, USA — 1 Mar 2005 Monarch butterflies in eastern North America have one of the longest migrations of any species, with a survival-of-the-fittest trek that can take them thousands of miles from Canada to Central Mexico. A new Emory University study has found that these journeys may be the key to maintaining healthy monarch populations at a time when habitat loss and other environmental issues could curb the ability of the butterflies to make the trip... Struggle to survive — Lawrence Journal World, Lawrence, KS, USA — 1 Mar 2005 Winter storms and a loss of habitat and food sources have caused a steep decline in the population of monarch butterflies, according to the director of the Kansas University-based Monarch Watch... |
