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A Butterfly plan, also known as a Double Suntrap plan, is a type of architectural plan in which two or more wings of a house are constructed at an angle to the core, usually at approximately 45 degrees to the wall of the core building. [1] It was used primarily in late Victorian architecture and during the early Arts and Crafts movement.
The Butterfly Alphabet is a photographic artwork by the Norwegian naturalist Kjell Bloch Sandved. [ 1 ] Sandved worked at the Smithsonian 's National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C. , and came up with the idea with Barbara Bedette , a paleontologist, of finding all 26 letters of the Latin alphabet and the Arabic numerals 0 to 9 in ...
The modern butterfly roof is commonly credited to be the creation of William Krisel and Dan Palmer in the late 1950s in Palm Springs, California.It has been estimated that starting in 1957, they created nearly 2,000 houses in a series of developments that were popularly known as the Alexander Tract, which has been described by historian Alan Hess as "the largest Modernist housing subdivision ...
The wingspan on the adult butterfly ranges from 1.25 to 1.5 inches. Despite its common name "great purple hairstreak", this butterfly does not sport any purple coloration. Instead, the upper-side of the wings are iridescent blue at the center, with a black border, and males typically have both a more extensive and brighter blue wing coloration when compared to their female counterpart
Asterocampa celtis, the hackberry emperor, is a North American butterfly that belongs to the brushfooted butterfly family, Nymphalidae. [2] It gets its name from the hackberry tree (Celtis occidentalis and others in the genus Celtis) upon which it lays its eggs. The hackberry tree is the only host plant for A. celtis and is the food source for ...
Zerene eurydice, the California dogface butterfly, belongs to the family Pieridae and is a sister genus to Colias. [2] The Zerene eurydice and the Colias both share the "characteristic of having yellow-orange and black wing coordination." [3] Additionally the,"Colias and Zerene eurydice males have bright UV patterns on their wings."
Butterfly is a three-part British television drama series that premiered on 14 October 2018. Made for ITV by Red Production Company , the series focuses on the family of 11-year-old Maxine (Callum Booth-Ford), who begins to realise that she is a transgender girl .