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Her classification of butterflies and moths is still relevant today. She used Native American names to refer to the plants, which became used in Europe: I created the first classification for all the insects which had chrysalises, the daytime butterflies and the nighttime moths. The second classification is that of the maggots, worms, flies ...
Frederick Albert Urquhart CM (December 13, 1911 – November 3, 2002) was a Canadian zoologist and professor of zoology who studied the migration of monarch butterflies, Danaus plexippus L. [1] [2] Together with his wife, Norah Roden Urquhart CM, he identified their migration routes, discovered that the migration spans multiple generations of butterflies, and found their wintering place in ...
Bates spent the best part of a year at Ega (now Tefé) in the Upper Amazon , [17] where he reported that turtle was eaten regularly, and insect catches were especially abundant. He found upwards of 7,000 species of insects in the area, including 550 distinct species of butterfly. [18] Bates nursed a sick toucan back to health. Tocáno (the ...
A Lepidoptera specimen drawer in a museum collection in Poland Another Lepidoptera specimen drawer in a museum collection in Poland. Lepidopterology (from Ancient Greek λεπίδος (lepídos) 'scale' πτερόν (pterón) 'wing' and -λογία [1]) is a branch of entomology concerning the scientific study of moths and the two superfamilies of butterflies.
Name Born Died Country Speciality Ref. A: Lajos Abafi: 1840: 1909: Hungary: Lepidoptera: John Abbot: 1751: 1840: United States: Elzéar Emmanuel Arène Abeille de ...
[4]: 85 Her work helped Petiver complete his British insect catalogue Gazophylacium naturae et artis, and he credited her in the text. [2] One of the first local lists of British insects, compiled on the insects of Bristol, is attributed to Glanville. [4]: 84 Glanville also reared her own moths and butterflies at home.
Amy Rose Perry always knew she wanted to release monarch butterflies at her Cape Cod wedding in honor of her father, Nathaniel Machain, who died on Aug. 5, 1999 when she was just 7 years old.
Alfred Russel Wallace (8 January 1823 – 7 November 1913) was an English [1] [2] [3] naturalist, explorer, geographer, anthropologist, biologist and illustrator. [4] He independently conceived the theory of evolution through natural selection; his 1858 paper on the subject was published that year alongside extracts from Charles Darwin's earlier writings on the topic.