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Beer-for-a-Butterfly Contest: We Have a Winner!

The 2019 “Beer for a Butterfly” contest is over. And the winner is…drum...
Inside this glassine envelope is the first-of-the-year cabbage white butterfly, ready to fly. It's a male collected in Suisun City.(Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Art Shapiro, UC Davis distinguished professor of evolution and ecology, holds a glassine envelope containing the winner of the 2019 Beer-for-a-Butterfly Contest. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
First flight dates of the cabbage white butterfly, Pieris rapae, in contest in three-county area of Sacramento, Solano and Yolo.