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News (Archive) | May 2005
Butterflies & moths on the WWW | Headlines
President Bush to Release Butterflies at Arlington National... — Send2Press (press release), USA — 27 May 2005 Washington, DC — The Department of Defense’s Tragedy Assistance Program for Survivors (TAPS) has scheduled a ceremony to honor and remember heroes who lost their lives in the service of our country or during terrorist attacks. Over 100 youth that have lost loved ones will attend the ceremony and each will release a live butterfly with President Bush, the IBBA announced today... SNH flies to butterflies’ rescue — BBC News, UK — 24 May 2005 Scottish Natural Heritage is targeting 12 endangered species of butterfly and moth as part of a £260,000 safety drive... Butterflies at the library — Sherman Denison Herald Democrat, Sherman/Denison, TX, USA — 24 May 2005 There are over 165,000 different species of butterflies, each one full of grace and beauty. Visitors to the children’s department of the Sherman Public Library were able to observe and appreciate these lovely insects up close during the last month when a butterfly garden was on display... Scotland key to butterflies’ survival — Scotsman, Edinburgh, UK — 24 May 2005 Scotland has become a critical stronghold for the UK’s most threatened butterflies as a result of changing land use south of the Border... Gap ‘encourages children to kill butterflies’ — Telegraph.co.uk, London, UK — 22 May 2005 Gap clothes chain, best-known for selling cargo pants and T-shirts to the nation’s youth, has been accused of encouraging children to slaughter Britain’s butterflies... Butterfly Migration Could Be Largest Known — Science Daily (press release), USA — 20 May 2005 Millions of painted lady butterflies that fluttered into California’s Central Valley in the last week of March could be just the advance guard of one of the largest migrations of the species on record, said Arthur Shapiro, a professor and expert on butterflies at UC Davis... Butterfly wingding — Cincinnati Enquirer, Cincinnati, OH, USA — 19 May 2005 Krohn Conservatory’s Show Room has never looked better, thanks largely to thousands of flowers in shades of bright red, yellow and orange — most of them hosting a butterfly or 20... Where have all the butterflies gone? — Times of India, New Delhi, India — 17 May 2005 The warning bells are ringing. India’s butterfly population is dwindling fast. Thanks to a thriving smuggling industry, the Atlas moth of the Khasi Hills is almost extinct, and exotic species like the Copper Butterfly, Swallowtail, Purple Emperor, Bhutan Glory and Malabar are in danger... Butterflies wait in the wings — Baltimore Sun, Baltimore, MD, USA — 13 May 2005 Standing in a tent at Baltimore’s zoo, Sue Muller bends over a small box, probing with a paintbrush for the squirming caterpillars hidden among wilted green leaves... How monarch butterflies are wired for navigation — EurekAlert, Washington, DC, USA — 2 May 2005 In their extraordinary annual migration from North America to Mexico, monarch butterflies are known to use the angle of polarized sunlight as a celestial guide to help them keep to a straight and true path southward. But details of their navigational machinery have remained a mystery... Blown away — Independent, London, UK — 2 May 2005 Butterflies cannot survive climate change. Peter Marren reports on the fight to save these most fragile of insects... |
