News (Archive) | September 2005

Butterflies & moths on the WWW | Headlines

Butterfly project under way —
Pontiac Daily Leader, Pontiac, IL, USA — 30 September 2005
Livingston County fourth graders, in coordination with Pontiac Township High School ecology students and the University of Illinois Extension, are helping replenish the environment one butterfly at a time...

Flutter for butterflies —
Houston Chronicle, USA — 30 September 2005
Fall planting season is here. And those who want to attract butterflies and their caterpillars next spring, will want to include habitat, nectar and food sources for them...

Monarch tracker visits KU —
Lawrence Journal World, Lawrence, KS, USA — 27 September 2005
For a month, Francisco “Vico” Gutierrez has been flying his ultralight airplane along the path of the migrating Monarch butterflies...

Flights of fancy —
Arizona Republic, Phoenix, AZ, USA — 23 September 2005
This summer has been a banner year for Arizona butterflies, who know quite a bit about the birds and the bees and got a nice reproductive boost from a wet winter and mild spring temperatures...

Butterflies Return to Kansas State University President’s Home as Part of Annual Migration —
U.S. Newswire, Washington, DC, USA — 22 September 2005
They come to his home unannounced by the thousands every year in the middle of September. Often they arrive in the middle of the night. When he awakes in the morning and steps outside, they’re in the yard, in the trees, everywhere...

Butterfly enthusiasts try to cultivate chrysalis in field —
Newsday, Long Island, NY, USA — 22 September 2005
A trip to Shady Glen restaurant on East Middle Turnpike isn’t as simple as it used to be for Connie Muther...