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Title: The bird, its form and function Year: 1906 Authors: Beebe, William, 1877-1962 Subjects: Birds Birds Publisher: New York : Henry Holt Contributing Library: Internet Archive Digitizing Sponsor: Internet Archive View Book Page: Book Viewer About This Book: Catalog Entry View All Images: All Images From Book
Trimen also described a new species of bird, the racket-tailed roller, based on skins provided to the South African Museum. [3] Trimen also studied pollination in orchids and these were of interest to Charles Darwin and led to a correspondence between them. [4] In addition, he wrote papers about leopards, sun-birds, the teeth of a whale and ...
Archived from the original on October 23, 1999 – via Internet Archive. With images. Young, J. J. (19 December 2000). "Remelana jangala (Horsfield, 1829) - 萊灰蝶 - Chocolate Royal". Hong Kong Lepidopterists Society. "A summary of the life history of Remelana jangala (Lycaenidae: Theclinae) is described and illustrated by colour photographs ...
Skippers are a group of butterflies placed in the family Hesperiidae within the order Lepidoptera (moths and butterflies). They were previously placed in a separate superfamily, Hesperioidea; however, the most recent taxonomy places the family in the superfamily Papilionoidea, the butterflies. They are named for their quick, darting flight habits.
A. tuberosa is a larval food plant of the queen and monarch butterflies, as well as the dogbane tiger moth, milkweed tussock moth, and the unexpected cycnia. [ 3 ] [ 12 ] Because of its rough leaves and trichomes , it is not a preferred host plant of the monarch butterfly but caterpillars can be reared on it successfully.
During his stay at Nafferton, Morris acquired a reputation for writing popular essays on natural history and in particular on birds. His first book was an arrangement of British birds and was published in 1834. About this time he formed a close working association with Benjamin Fawcett (1808–1893), a local printer. This relationship would ...
Unsigned, the painting is attributed to de Arellano due to the wide variety of flowers scientifically portrayed, the precise underdrawing and the quite free arrangement of them with the petals (especially those of the red and white tulip at bottom left) seemingly troubled by a breeze, though the inclusion of a dahlia and orange blossom is rare ...
An important difference with bird migration is that an individual butterfly or moth usually migrates in one direction, while birds migrate back and forth multiple times within their lifespan. This is due to the short lifespan as an imago. Amazingly the monarch receives no navigation instruction for the migration from their parents, unlike birds.