#common butterflies

[whatnext10]

Colorful Spring Butterflies are Taking to the Air

So Many Eyes Even though much of the United States is struggling with late snow, here in Florida spring has definitely arrived. I’ve recently shared several posts about spring wildflowers, but for wildflowers to thrive they need pollinators. And of course, the pollinators are also coming back out along with the flowers. On Monday I went outside to do some bird watching and ended up getting…

[heartnosekid]

the common green birdwing (ornithoptera priamus) | source

[serafphim]

[hellsitegenetics]

Okay, I hope that this works and we’re able to get an actual match-

So, whatever animal/plant/fungus this ask results in I’ll make an OC in my head that is that creature

Yes I did make my ask long and overwritten so that you have more material to work with why do you ask?

String identified: a, tat t a ’ a t gt a acta atc-

, at aa/at/g t a t ’ a a C a tat tat cat

a a g a tt tat a ata t t a?

Closest match: Lycaena phlaeas genome assembly, chromosome: 18 Common name: Common Copper

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[elalalune]

Reaching through the looking glass

(Wonderland au)

[blooming-lenses]

common brimstone

2024/06/22

[michaelnordeman]

Peacock butterfly/påfågelöga and Common brimstone/citronfjäril. Huddinge, Sweden (July 27, 2013).

[kennaxwillow]

[firstlawcedarprairie]

Small Copper and Philadelphia fleabane

[vandaliatraveler]

Summer has arrived, and with it, the single greatest proliferation of life in Central Appalachia. This is the time of great, ostentatious wildflowers, one more showy and resplendent than the next, each competing with the other for the swarms of pollinators that have emerged to drink from the earth's sweet nectar pots, find their mates, and plant their eggs in the all-too-brief span before their whirring energies have faded into oblivion. At no time do I feel more connected to life's urgent, relentless pulse than in the electric heat of summer; the rich meadows, bogs, streambanks, and hedgerows are my temples and the tiny creatures that come to them to feed and renew their kind are the only intermediaries I need to realize true spiritual peace and joy.

The photos above are from a late afternoon bike ride on Deckers Creek Trail.

[snototter]

A common maplet (Chersonesia risa) in Gaurighat, Nepal

by Mike Darlow

[los-plantalones]

I wanted to highlight this because I knew it would come up as SOON as I mention common milkweed (asclepias syriaca), which is a milkweed from the Eastern and Central US.

Indigenous peoples, respected ethnobotanists, and veteran foragers eat milkweed by the bucket! If other people knew how amazing of a plant it is – there is something edible and delicious about it at every stage of growth, it is very easy to plant / spread its seeds, and it grows almost like a weed – they would love and cherish it.

If more people were encouraged to utilize it, they would be less likely to get rid of it in their yards. They might even start growing a whole patch. It’s a sustainable food source. We would be helping its insect friends who are HARMLESS to our gardens but important for the environment.

It’s not like, say, ramps that are overharvested every year and have disappeared from huge stretches of land where they were once abundant. Ramps grown from seed take SEVEN years to mature. Milkweed grows and matures the same year.

People eating milkweed don’t contribute to monarch butterfly decline. The use of herbicides, Big Agro, cities just mowing down whatever the hell they want are to blame.

That said, it’s still important to forage in an ethical way. Never strip a plant of all its flowers, leaves, or fruit. Never harvest an entire patch of plants from a single area. Check for beneficial insects and leave them alone. If a native plant has gone to seed, help spread those around.

This is NOT a callout — this is important information that I want everyone to know. Eating milkweed will NOT harm the monarch butterflies.

Learn More:

The Forager’s Harvest

Learn Your Land

Part 1 | Common Milkweed

[heartnosekid]

common blue morpho (morpho peleides) | diana_murguta on ig

[critter-creature-or-beast]

By Kevin Raskoff, Hidden Ocean 2005 Expedition: NOAA Office of Ocean Exploration. - NOAA Photo Library, Public Domain

[hellsitegenetics]

hello hello hellsitegenetics, I've been too anxious to send an ask forever but NOW HERE I AM. My final biology exam is coming up (I mostly have to talk about genetics, in fact) and I am in need of a critter to guide me through these trying times, a creature to help me stay strong during the test and the days leading up to it.

Also btw I love the mental image I have of you pointing a wizard staff at a tumblr post and shooting it with a magic BLAST, transforming it into a critter :>

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Closest match: Erebia ligea genome assembly, chromosome: 18 Common name: Arran Brown

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[indigrassy]

Butterfly in the sky, I can go twice as high.