News (Archive) | August 2005

Butterflies & moths on the WWW | Headlines

Butterflies flutter by Sullivan County libraries —
Times Herald-Record, Middletown, NY, USA — 20 August 2005
Females have smudgier black markings and males have scent pouches. They live between five and eight weeks. Their chrysalides are a beautiful jade green ringed with thin bands of what looks like fine gold braid...

Butterfly enthusiasts are spreading their wings —
Boston Globe, USA — 18 August 2005
Butterflies have long been the good-will ambassadors of the insect kingdom. They are beautiful and also harmless. Even in their caterpillar (or larval) stage they do very little damage...

The ultimate collection —
St. Petersburg Times, St. Petersburg, FL, USA — 18 August 2005
Whenever modern life gets too fast for me, I like to drive north to see butterflies at the McGuire Center for Lepidoptera and Biodiversity on the University of Florida campus...

It’s a super summer for butterflies —
The Saginaw News, Saginaw, MI, USA — 16 August 2005
If you think you’ve seen more butterflies fluttering about, you may be right...

Butterflies survive tanker fire —
Danbury News Times, Danbury, CT, USA — 13 August 2005
When a tanker truck crashed and burned on Route 7 last month, officials worried about environmental damage to the nearby fields and wetlands...