Posts Tagged: butterflies
Ooh, an Ooth! And on a Clothespin, at That!
No doubt you've seen a praying mantis egg case, or ootheca, on a tree, shrub, fence or...
An eggcase or ootheca warming on a clothespin in Vacaville, Calif. This is from a Stagmomantis limbata. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
This image of a gravid Stagmomantis limbata, taken last summer in a Vacaville pollinator garden, may have been the mama. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
The predator and the prey. A female mantis, Stagmomantis limbata, eyes a honey bee in a pollinator garden in Vacaville last summer. She missed. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Art Shapiro: Monitoring Butterfly Populations in Central California Since 1972
If you missed it, yesterday (March 14) was the annual "National Learn About Butterflies...
One of Art Shapiro's monitoring sites is Gates Canyon, Vacaville. Here he looks for butterflies in this image taken on Jan. 25, 2014. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
UC Davis distinguished professor Art Shapiro estimates he wears out three or four pairs of a shoes a year. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Are You Ready for the Western Monarch Mystery Challenge?
Monarch Butterfly Alert! It's early spring and Western monarchs are heading inland from...
First in a series of photos taken in 2016: Two monarchs meet in a Tithonia patch in Vacaville, Calif. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Second in a series of photos taken in 2016: One monarch is nectaring and the other investigating. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Third in a series of photos taken in 2016: Two monarchs interacting in a Tithonia patch. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Fourth in a series of photos taken in 2016: The two monarchs take flight. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
This map shows the area where monarch sightings should be reported in the Western Monarch Mystery Challenge.
Guess Who's Back?
"Guess who's back?" butterfly guru Art Shapiro, UC Davis distinguished professor of evolution and...
Monarchs overwintering in the Natural Bridges State Park, Santa Cruz, in 2016. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Art Shapiro: One Moth, One Butterfly
The New Year is less than a week old, and Lepidoptera (aka Lep) species are scarce. Butterfly...
A screen shot of Art Shapiro's butterfly site at http://butterfly.ucdavis.edu/