Posts Tagged: cabbage white butterfly
Hurray for the Red, White and Blue!
Hurray for the red, white and blue! One more day until we celebrate the birth of our country,...
"Red" is for the red flameskimmer, Libellula saturata. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey).
"White" is for the cabbage white butterfly, Pieris rapae. It's a pest, but its colors are appropriate on Independence Day. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
"Blue" is for Acmon Blue (Plebejus acmon) butterfly. It's as blue as the starry background on the American flag. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
In the Pink?
He's never seen anything like it. A pink cabbage white butterfly? Pieris rapae are not...
Ventral view: a cabbage white butterfly sprayed pink. (Photo by Greg Kareofelas)
Dorsal view: the cabbage white butterfly sprayed pink. (Photo by Greg Kareofelas)
A cabbage white butterfly in the wild. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
It's Over
The Beer-for-a-Butterfly contest is over. And we have a winner! Drum roll...Art...
Art Shapiro, distinguished professor of evolution and ecology at UC Davis, holds the first cabbage white butterfly of 2015. He collected it Jan. 26 in West Sacramento, Yolo County. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
It's a Butterfly Week!
When the week is about butterflies instead of guerrilla attacks, murderous rampages, measles...
Ulysses butterfly (Papilio ulysses) collection in the Bohart Museum of Entomology. These are all males. The females have barely any blue on their wings. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
This is a Paris peacock butterfly (Papilio paris), part of the Bohart Museum of Entomology collection. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
The Bohart Museum of Entomology houses nearly eight million specimens from all over the world. Here are some of the butterfly specimens. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
A Posse for the Pieiris?
In case you've forgotten amid all the horn-blowing, champagne-sipping and singing of "Auld Lang...
Cabbage white butterfly on catmint. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)