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  2. Viola sororia - Wikipedia

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    Viola sororia ( / vaɪˈoʊlə səˈrɔːriə / vy-OH-lə sə-ROR-ee-ə ), [ 5] known commonly as the common blue violet, is a short-stemmed herbaceous perennial plant native to eastern North America. It is known by a number of common names, including common meadow violet, purple violet, woolly blue violet, hooded violet, and wood violet.

  3. Ultraviolet communication in butterflies - Wikipedia

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    Butterflies, or members of the Papilionoidea superfamily, use two ultraviolet signals, UV reflectance or absorbance as a communication system. The ultraviolet region is the part of the electromagnetic spectrum between 10 nm and 400 nm in wavelength. Sensitivity to this region provides butterflies several benefits such as nectar guides for ...

  4. Common blue - Wikipedia

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    This enables the common blue to see color in the green part of the light spectrum extending up to 560 nm (2.2 × 10 −5 in). There is also a difference between the dorsal and ventral eye-shine of P. icarus , with the dorsal retina dominated by yellow-reflecting ommatidia and the ventral exhibiting yellow and red-reflecting ommatidia.

  5. Griffin family - Wikipedia

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    The Griffin family is a fictional family and main characters in the animated television series Family Guy, and who also appear in The Cleveland Show. The Griffins are a dysfunctional family consisting of the married couple Peter and Lois, their three children Meg, Chris, and Stewie, and their anthropomorphic dog Brian.

  6. List of butterflies of Texas - Wikipedia

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    Chlosyne lacinia (bordered patch) Chlosyne marina (red-spotted patch) Chlosyne nycteis (silvery checkerspot) Chlosyne rosita (rosita patch) Dymasia dymas (tiny checkerspot) Euphydryas chalcedona (variable checkerspot) Euphydryas phaeton (Baltimore) Hypolimnas misippus (mimic) Junonia coenia (common buckeye)

  7. Peter Griffin - Wikipedia

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    Peter Löwenbräu Griffin Sr. [1] (born Justin Peter Griffin) [A] is a fictional character and the protagonist of the American animated sitcom Family Guy. He is voiced by the series' creator, Seth MacFarlane , and first appeared on television, along with the rest of the Griffin family , in the episode " Death Has a Shadow " on January 31, 1999.

  8. Treehouse of Horror XIII - Wikipedia

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    The Simpsons season 14. List of episodes. " Treehouse of Horror 13 " is the first episode of the fourteenth season of the American animated television series The Simpsons, and the thirteenth Treehouse of Horror episode. It first aired on the Fox network in the United States on November 3, 2002, three days after Halloween.

  9. List of common misconceptions - Wikipedia

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    The Sun is not yellow; rather, it emits light across the full spectrum of visible colors, and this combined light appears white when outside of Earth's atmosphere. Earth's atmosphere scatters shorter wavelengths of light, particularly blues and violets, more than longer wavelengths like reds and yellows, and this scattering is why the Sun ...