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Elefun is a 1993 children's game from Hasbro.Players use a net to catch butterflies from a plastic elephant's 1-metre-long (3.3 ft) trunk, a plastic chute through which the paper butterflies travel, propelled up by a motor in the elephant.
Different cultures believe that the color of a butterfly can symbolize everything from creativity to evil. Here we explain the meaning behind butterfly colors.
The delicate charm of a butterfly, with its fabulous fluttering wings and jewel-toned hues, is a sight to behold.Even so, you may have, at some point in your life, wondered if these colorful ...
A butterfly net being used in the field. A butterfly net (sometimes called an aerial insect net) is one of several kinds of nets used to collect insects. The entire bag of the net is generally constructed from a lightweight mesh to minimize damage to delicate butterfly wings.
Firefly tourism, a quickly growing sector of the travel and tourism industry, has also been identified as a potential threat to fireflies and their habitats when not managed appropriately. [43] Like many other organisms, fireflies are directly affected by land-use change (e.g., loss of habitat area and connectivity), which is identified as the ...
Lepidoptera (/ ˌ l ɛ p ɪ ˈ d ɒ p t ər ə / LEP-ih-DOP-tər-ə) or lepidopterans is an order of winged insects which includes butterflies and moths.About 180,000 species of the Lepidoptera have been described, representing 10% of the total described species of living organisms, [1] [2] making it the second largest insect order (behind Coleoptera) with 126 families [3] and 46 superfamilies ...
Ellychnia corrusca, the winter firefly, [2] is a species of firefly in the genus Ellychnia. [3] It is a lantern-less diurnal beetle common in the United States , Mexico , and Canada . The adults spend winter on a colony tree, favoring Quercus (oak), Carya (hickory), and Liriodendron tulipifera (tulip poplar).
The rajah and pasha butterflies, also known as emperors in Africa and Australia, [1] [2] (genus Charaxes) make up the huge type genus of the brush-footed butterfly subfamily Charaxinae, or leafwing butterflies. They belong to the tribe Charaxini, which also includes the nawab butterflies .