Posts Tagged: Cabbage white butterfly
Bingo! First Cabbage White Butterfly of the Year!
In between the rain and the cold, UC Davis distinguished professor Art Shapiro of the Department of...
UC Davis distinguished professor Art Shapiro spotted two cabbage white butterflies today (Feb. 8) in West Sacramento, Yolo County. These weren't them. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
This is the first-flight-of-the-butterfly chart by UC Davis alumnus Matthew "Matt" Forister, the Trevor J. McMinn Endowed Professor in Biology, and Foundation Professor, Department of Biology, University of Nevada.
Oh, That Elusive Cabbage White Butterfly
No butterfly. No beer. Blame the rain. Blame the cold. As of today, Jan. 26, no one has won...
A cabbage white butterfly stops for a little catmint nectar (flight fuel) on a warm summer day. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
To Catch a Cabbage White...On a Wing and a Prayer
To catch a cabbage white butterfly... It was early October and a gravid praying mantis, almost...
Praying mantis: "I'm hungry! What's to eat?" (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Praying mantis: "I shall stretch and offer up a prayer that dinner will arrive." (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Praying mantis: "My prayers are answered. Is that what I think it is? Dinner?" (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Praying mantis: "I shall eat everything but the wings." (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Praying mantis: "I'm not finished yet." (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Praying mantis: "My future offspring will appreciate the protein." This mantis is a Stagomantis limbata, as identified by Lohit Garikipati, a UC Davis alumnus studying for his master's degree at Towson University, Towson, Md. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Beer-for-Butterfly Contest Set; Why It's of Special Interest This Year
UC Davis distinguished professor Art Shapiro's annual Beer-for-a-Butterfly Contest, in which he...
A cabbage white butterfly, Pieris rapae, nectaring on catmint (Nepeta) in Vacaville, Calif. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Matt Forister, the Trevor J. McMinn Endowed Professor in Biology, Foundation Professor, at the University of Nevada (and a former graduate student of Aat Shapiro's) created this graph showing the first flights of Pieris rapae.
Eight-Year-Old Boy 'Runner-Up' in Hunt for First Cabbage White Butterfly of the Year
UC Davis distinguished professor Art Shapiro of the Department of Evolution and Ecology didn't...
Asher Schneider, 8, of Davis, holds his "runner-up" cabbage white butterfly.
A cabbage white butterfly, Pieris rapae, in flight. This is a summer image taken in Vacaville, Calif. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)