Posts Tagged: Beer for a 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)
Beer-for-a-Butterfly Contest Is Over
If you were thinking of trying to net a cabbage white butterfly to win Art Shapiro's...
A cabbage white heads for catmint in a garden in Vacaville, Calif. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
This graph by Matthew Forister, McMinn Professor of Biology, University of Nevada, Reno, shows the first flights of the cabbage white butterfly, Pieris rapae. Forister received his doctorate from UC Davis, studying with major professor Art Shapiro.
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)
Suds for a Bug? Get Out Your Net!
Suds for a bug? Get out your net! If you collect the first cabbage white butterfly of the year in...
A cabbage white butterfly, Pieris rapae, in a summer flight in Vacaville, Calif. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)