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The Dorset Horn is an endangered British breed of domestic sheep. It is documented from the seventeenth century, and is highly prolific , sometimes producing two lambing seasons per year. Among British sheep, it is the only breed capable of breeding throughout the winter.
The Dorper is a fast-growing meat-producing sheep. The Dorper is an easy-care animal that produces a short, light coat of wool and hair that is shed in late spring and summer. It was developed in South Africa and is now the second most popular breed in that country. The Dorper Sheep Breeders Society of South Africa was founded in 1950.
Heliconius ismenius, the Ismenius tiger or tiger heliconian, is a butterfly of the family Nymphalidae found in Central America and northern South America. They are abundant as far south as Ecuador and Venezuela and as far north as southern Mexico, Guatemala and Belize. [2] H. ismenius are more commonly called the tiger-striped long wing butterfly.
Buddleja davidii, which is often called "butterfly-bush", attracts many butterflies. [29] As it originated in China, it is presently planted in many parts of the world in which it is non-native. [29] In such settings, the plant feeds many native butterflies and other adult pollinators, but not many of their larvae. [30]
the Dorset Down, a British sheep breed; the Dorset Horn, a British sheep breed; the Polish Modified Dorset, a Polish sheep breed developed at the University of Life Sciences in Poznań; the Poll Dorset, an Australian sheep breed derived from the Dorset Horn; the Polled Dorset, an American sheep breed derived from the Dorset Horn
Dorper: South Africa [83] Meat [83] Dorset: Dorset Horn, Dorset Horned [84] United Kingdom Meat [84] Dorset Down: United Kingdom [85] Meat [85] Drenth Heath Sheep: Drents Heideschaap [86] Netherlands [86] Vegetation management [86] Drysdale: New Zealand [87] Wool [87] Duben sheep Bulgaria wool
Host plant families include Apocynaceae, Asclepiadoideae (subfamily of Apocynaceae), and Moraceae. Ithomiini (about 300 Neotropical species, sometimes considered a subfamily Ithomiinae) Most species have long wings, and some have transparent wings. Host plants are in the families Apocynaceae, Gesneriaceae, and Solanaceae.
The tribe's type genus Danaus contains the well-known monarch butterfly (D. plexippus) and is also the type genus of the tribe's subfamily, the milkweed butterflies (Danainae). The Danaini do not have a fixed colloquial name for the entire tribe, but in particular for subtribe Danaina the term tiger butterflies is occasionally used in reference ...