Multiple monarchs sip nectar from the pink blooms of Flyer’s nemesis- Brickellia cordifolia, September 2022. is an eclectic Philadelphia-based boutique label run by guitarist, composer, and producer Tim Motzer. 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.

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 gently let it climb onto my finger and placed it on a twig of a pawpaw sapling (most likely its dining hall as a larva).The winner mates with the females and prevents other males from doing so through a chemical transfer, [3] [9] passing a nutrient-rich spermatophore to the female that reduces her attractiveness to other potential mates. Finance is provided by PayPal Credit (a trading name of PayPal UK Ltd, Whittaker House, Whittaker Avenue, Richmond-Upon-Thames, Surrey, United Kingdom, TW9 1EH). Nutritional Ecology of a Generalist Herbivore Vanessa Cardui Linnaeus Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae on Variable Larval and Adult Diets.

They release different things inside themselves, and then you feel to yourself, ‘Damn, there’s really a responsibility to some of these girls, you know, because they’re the ones that are gonna get screwed. Pollen Feeding, Resource Allocation and the Evolution of Chemical Defence in Passion Vine Butterflies". The adult butterflies are unusual in feeding on pollen as well as on nectar; the pollen enables them to synthesize cyanogenic glycosides that make their bodies toxic to potential predators. These poisons are advertised by the white or yellow stripes and spots on the adults' wings and body.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. Elsewhere, he shows solid, curiosity-fueled impulses on the aptly nerve-buzzing “Pre-Nerve Scale” and the angular “La Part Maudite. Evidence of Pollen Digestion at Nocturnal Aggregations of Heliconius Sara in Costa Rica (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae).

A few weeks after they were declared internationally endangered, here a monarch butterfly has met its end in my yard.I wonder if the intervening butterflies in the photo above were trying to stop the assault, or trying to knock the male off to mate with the female themselves. In most species of butterflies, pheromones play a role in courtship and mate recognition, [23] and can play a role in deterring mates.