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Gulf Fritillaries Are Back!

A Gulf Fritillary lays an egg on a passionflower vine in Vacaville on March 26. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Okay, where are they? Shouldn't they be emerging soon? They're in Davis and Suisun. Why not...

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Posted on Monday, March 28, 2016 at 5:46 PM

Author: Kathy Keatley Garvey

Tags: Agraulis vanillae (33), Art Shapiro (158), Greg Kareofelas (10), Gulf Fritiliarry (1), Passiflora (12), passionflower vine (11)

Good Day, Mourning Cloak

A mourning cloak, Nymphalis antiopa, as photographed Feb. 6, 2016 in the Carolee Shields White Flower Garden and Gazebo, UC Davis Arboretum. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

If you go looking for a bumble bee, you might find a butterfly. And vice versa. The UC Davis...

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Posted on Monday, February 8, 2016 at 2:57 PM

Author: Kathy Keatley Garvey

Tags: Art Shapiro (158), Bombus melanopygus (2), Buddleia (1), butterfly bush (2), mourning cloak (2), mourning cloak (2), UC Davis Arboretum (5), White Garden (1)

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

UC Davis student Jacob Montgomery (left) and Professor Art Shapiro toast the first flight of a cabbage white, found in the three-county area of Sacramento, Yolo and Solano. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

We have a winner! And he wasn't even looking for it. A UC Davis graduate student won the...

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Posted on Tuesday, January 19, 2016 at 8:41 PM

Author: Kathy Keatley Garvey

Tags: Art Shapiro (158), Butterfly for a Bear (1), cabbage white butterfly (27), first flight (1), Jacob Montgomery (3), Matt Forister (4), Pieris rapae (25)

Beer for a Butterfly: Good News and Bad News

Two cabbage white butterflies foraging on catmint in the summer of 2008 in Vacaville, Solano County. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

What's the status of the "Beer for a Butterfly" Contest? Do we have a winner? Well, there's good...

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Posted on Monday, January 4, 2016 at 6:13 PM

Author: Kathy Keatley Garvey

Tags: Art Shapiro (158), beer for a butterfly (8), cabbage white butterfly (27), contest (1), Pieiris rapae (1)

Can't Get Enough of Those Gulf Frits

A newly eclosed Gulf Fritillary. Note the pupal case. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

No matter how many we see or how often we see them, we can't get enough of the Gulf Frits. That...

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Posted on Wednesday, December 30, 2015 at 2:27 PM

Author: Kathy Keatley Garvey

Tags: Agraulis vanillae (33), Art Shapiro (158), Gulf Fritilary (1), Mexican sunflower (5), Passiflora (12), Tithonia (7)

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