Butterflies, Zebras, Moonbeams

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I could tend to deadlines for grant funded projects, or I could set up a camera and wait for a female to eclose, filming the males fighting for her as she entered the world as a butterfly. I popped back out half-an-hour later and saw this: Newly eclosed female zebra longwing mates while hanging from chrysalis. It was a challenge getting close enough to attempt a photo, and quickly became a frustration as the butterfly never sat still while flitting among the clusters of tiny mountain mint flowers.Looping back around to the cohesive group at hand, the album closes with a shout-out from the pianist-leader to the drummer. Most other butterflies live only a few weeks, but heliconians continue to live and to lay eggs for several months.

A couple of weeks ago, I saw a site that gave me a little jolt: A monarch butterfly caught by a spider. I let leaves lie in the winter, and I try to leave bare patches of soil for ground nesting insects such as bees.I’ve planted milkweed for years, and seen dozens of their caterpillars grow and metamorphose into adulthood. Not only were there always scores of caterpillars, but we never had less than a dozen or so adult butterflies around the yard.

Here’s the thing: If I see a dead monarch in my yard, it’s because I have habitat for monarchs in my yard. Since these pupae are camouflaged and lack strong sexual pheromones, males rely on the olfactory cue from the damaged plant to find mates. I have them occasionally at home (we have several pawpaw trees on our property) and have seen them frequently this summer at work. Spermatophores contain anaphrodisiacs, pheromones that reduce the attractiveness of the females to subsequent males, indicating evolution driven by intrasexual selection between males. On the dorsal side, the wings are black with narrow white and yellow stripes, with a similar pattern on the ventral side, but paler and with red spots.Butterflies usually feed on the sweet nectar inside flowers, only accidentally gathering pollen on their bodies as they roam. Their bold pattern of black and white stripes, long tails, and the bright red spots near the base of their hind wings never fail to delight me when I spy one flitting through the summer air. I feel like I’ve seen more death in my yard this year than in other years, but that’s because there’s so much more life in my yard than in other years. A taste for pollen is rare in the butterfly world - most species rely on sugar-laden nectar or fruit to provide the energy they need.

We use cook ies to give you the best online experience and to show personalised content and marketing. Hopefully, after a week of exploring the garden, they are all taking home the lesson of the value of planting native species and the rewards of observing the beautiful mysteries of the natural world. Perhaps because of their spikey appearance, zebra longwing caterpillars hang out in the open, in large numbers. Adults sometimes migrate north to New Mexico, South Carolina, and Nebraska during the warmer months. I Googled it and found that male zebra longwings will hang onto chrysalises and wait for females to eclose.On her striking new album, pianist-composer Eva Novoa, aided and abetted by quartet members (Michaël Attias on alto saxophone, Max Johnson on bass and Jeff Davis on drums), offers up further evidence of the current surge of creative energy coming out of Brooklyn. I am working on a photo collection of the pollinators of the NC Botanical Garden and am trying to get out once a day for at least a few minutes to document the amazing abundance of species visiting our wildflowers. While stalking some wasps on a sunny afternoon after summer camp duty, a stunning butterfly zoomed by, quivering as it foraged on a couple of species of mountain mint ( Pycnanthemum sp. In a sandhill habitat, this means establishing a grassy understory, planting longleaf pine, and managing it with regular fire. Lucid, subconscious, introverted, and taking B from Montreal to Los Angeles, Butterflies, Zebras, Moonbeams is an intimate perspective on the life of making music.