Posts Tagged: Cabbage white butterfly
No Contest, But Art Shapiro Spots First Cabbage White Butterfly of Year
The COVID-19 pandemic canceled the 2021 Beer-for-a-Butterfly Contest but sponsor Art Shapiro,...
The cabbage white butterfly, Pieris rapae, nectaring on catmint in the summer. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Matthew Forister, the McMinn Professor of Biology at the University of Nevada and a former graduate student of Art Shapiro's, analyzes and graphs the annual data.
No Suds for a Bug in 2021
No suds for a bug in 2021. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic precautions, butterfly...
The Beer-for-a-Butterfly Contest won't take place this year, but the cabbage white butterfly, Pieris rapae, will still be around. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Can a Jumping Spider Win the UC Davis Beer-for-a-Butterfly Contest?
Every year butterfly guru and distinguished professor Art Shapiro of the UC Davis Department of...
Herman the jumping spider nails a cabbage white butterfly. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Herman the jumping spider eating the cabbage white butterfly. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
A Monarch Sighting in January? In Sacramento? Yes!
News flash: Monarch sighting in Sacramento! Butterfly guru Art Shapiro, UC Davis distinguished...
A monarch in flight in the summer of 2017 in Vacaville, Calif. This is the non-native tropical milkweed, Asclepias curassavica.(Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Pieris rapae, Pieris rapae, Pieris rapae...
"Today dawned foggy," began Art Shapiro, distinguished professor of evolution and ecology, in a...
A cabbage white butterfly, Pieris rapae, nectaring on catmint last summer in Vacaville. (Too late in the season last year to win Art Shapiro's contest.) (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)