LOL, The Far Side Cartoon
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1w ago
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National Learn About Butterflies Day
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1w ago
March 14th is National Learn About Butterflies Day. For the past several years I have posted an interesting fact on Facebook. The responses have been appreciative and grateful! 2024. Today is National Learn About Butterflies Day. Did you know… You can tell if the Monarch is a male by the little black dots on its wings. Monarch males can produce pheromones, which they secrete through special glands on the wings. 2023. Today is National Learn About Butterflies Day. Did you know… Birds are natural predators who eat butterflies and caterpillars? However, sometimes they just coexist in lovely ima ..read more
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Eggs
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2w ago
Apparently Swallowtail butterflies are known to lay their eggs in the Vivarium. They confuse these plants with their host plants ..read more
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Where Did Butterflies Come From? This Scientist Is On the Case
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1M ago
This article is from The Smithsonian Magazine. Here are excerpts: Akito Kawahara has spent his life devoted to lepidoptera. Now he’s correcting the record on where they first evolved Most scientists thought they evolved in Australasia, but it seems most likely that the first butterflies appeared in North and Central America. The ancestor of butterflies was a nocturnal moth that became day-flying here, 101.4 million years ago. Processing more than 370 million individual DNA pieces, or nucleotides, through models of DNA evolution, the supercomputers calculated the best hypothesis or probability ..read more
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New Signage in the Vivarium
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1M ago
AMNH Butterfly Vivarium: new sign about exiting and keeping the butterflies safe. IMHO it is challenging to read and understand ..read more
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Strange Blue Cracker
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1M ago
This Blue Cracker developed with its bottom wings that don’t “belong”. After showing this to P.K., our awesome staff person, I was told that this was a mutant and did not belong in the Vivarium. From Central and South America. This is what a Blue Cracker looks like ..read more
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Great Eggfly looks out over Columbus Avenue.
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Perspectives on a Julia Longwing
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2024 In The Vivarium
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2M ago
Myscelia Cyaniris, aka the Blue Wave, Blue Banded Purplewing, Whitened Bluewing or Royal Blue from Central and South America ..read more
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Blue Morpho in an orange setting
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3M ago
Here’s a Blue Morpho Butterfly from Costa Rica on the orange section of the identification display in the AMNH Butterfly Vivarium ..read more
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