Other butterflies visit their larval food plants and leave, or I’ll see one or two visiting flowers. When pollen availability is low, adult butterflies recycle cyanogenic glycosides they synthesized previously. Zebra longwing adults roost communally at night in groups of up to 60 adults for safety from predators. Lucid, subconscious, introverted, and taking B from Montreal to Los Angeles, Butterflies, Zebras, Moonbeams is an intimate perspective on the life of making music. The most I have ever seen were down at Pettigrew State Park and Pocosin Lakes National Wildlife Refuge, where pawpaw is the dominant tree in the understory.

Well, not entirely free: The male butterfly escaped to this dog fennel, a little of the female still attached to him. Butterflies with Mexican origins migrate north into Texas, following the retracting temperature gradient. During the night, the butterflies digest pollen since optimal nutritional resources are obtained while resting or sleeping. A couple of years ago, I was interviewing The Nature Conservancy’s Brian Pelc about sandhill restoration.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. These cookies are strictly necessary for the operation of the site, you can disable them by changing the settings of your browser but you will not be able to use the site normally.

Butterflies usually feed on the sweet nectar inside flowers, only accidentally gathering pollen on their bodies as they roam. I’ve planted milkweed for years, and seen dozens of their caterpillars grow and metamorphose into adulthood. At eclosion, the ratio is highly female biased, but the rest of the year the sex ratio is overall male biased (68% males). Monarchs often leave their milkweed plants when not eating, seeking shelter away from those paper wasps that are always raiding the plants. The colour patterns of many others butterflies copy the stripes of zebra butterflies - they want to trick their predators into thinking that they are the bad tasting zebra butterflies as well.I knew gulf fritillaries would travel to make a chrysalis, but these were in the same wildflower patch as the passionvine.