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The Monarch Grove Sanctuary is an urban nature preserve in Pacific Grove, California. It protects the monarch butterflies that winter in Pacific Grove arriving in October. It is maintained by a volunteer crew. [2] About 12–16,000 butterflies stayed at the sanctuary during the 2022-23 winter, making it the fourth largest of its type in California.
Cotesia glomerata, the white butterfly parasite, is a small parasitoid wasp belonging to family Braconidae. It was described by Carl Linnaeus in his 1758 publication 10th edition of Systema Naturae .
Euxoa westermanni (Staudinger, 1857) Lasionycta leucocycla (Staudinger, 1857) Mniotype adusta (Esper, 1790) Mniotype sommeri (Lefebvre, 1836) Polia richardsoni (Curtis, 1835) Rhyacia quadrangula (Zetterstedt, 1839) Spaelotis clandestina (Harris, 1841) Sympistis lapponica (Thunberg, 1791) Sympistis nigrita Staudinger, 1857.
Synonyms. Papilio rhamni Linnaeus, 1758. Gonepteryx rhamni, commonly named the common brimstone, is a butterfly of the family Pieridae. It lives throughout the Palearctic zone and is commonly found across Europe, Asia, and North Africa. [2] Across much of its range, it is the only species of its genus, and is therefore simply known locally as ...
While the butterflies form a monophyletic group, the moths, which comprise the rest of the Lepidoptera, do not. Many attempts have been made to group the superfamilies of the Lepidoptera into natural groups, most of which fail because one of the two groups is not monophyletic: Microlepidoptera and Macrolepidoptera, Heterocera and Rhopalocera, Jugatae and Frenatae, Monotrysia and Ditrysia.
Attacus atlas, the Atlas moth, is a large saturniid moth endemic to the forests of Asia. The species was described by Carl Linnaeus in his 1758 10th edition of Systema Naturae. The Atlas moth is one of the largest lepidopterans, with a wingspan measuring up to 24 cm (9.4 in) [1] and a wing surface area of about 160 cm 2 (≈25 in 2). [2]
Anosia plexippus (Moore, 1883)[5] Monarch butterfly caterpillar. D. p. plexippus. Piedra Herrada, Mexico. The monarch butterfly or simply monarch (Danaus plexippus) is a milkweed butterfly (subfamily Danainae) in the family Nymphalidae. [6] Other common names, depending on region, include milkweed, common tiger, wanderer, and black-veined brown ...
Bicyclus anynana ( squinting bush brown) is a small brown butterfly in the family Nymphalidae, the most globally diverse family of butterflies. [ 2] It is primarily found in eastern Africa from southern Sudan to Eswatini. [ 3] It is found mostly in woodland areas and flies close to the ground. [ 4] Male wingspans are 35–40 mm and female ...