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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 ...
P. argus cretaceus – formerly on chalk and limestone downland of south and south-east coasts, now restricted to Portland Bill. P. argus caernensis – Great Ormes Head (north Wales) P. argus masseyi – extinct (formerly north-west England) Brown argus – Aricia agestis LC. – throughout southern England, north to River Tees, south and ...
The monarch butterfly or simply monarch ( Danaus plexippus) is a milkweed butterfly ( subfamily Danainae) in the family Nymphalidae. [6] Other common names, depending on region, include milkweed, common tiger, wanderer, and black-veined brown. [7] It is among the most familiar of North American butterflies and an iconic pollinator, [8] although ...
The Palos Verdes blue ( Glaucopsyche lygdamus palosverdesensis) is a small endangered butterfly native to the Palos Verdes Peninsula in southwest Los Angeles County, California, United States. As its distribution has been proven to be limited to one single site, it has one of the best claims to being the world's rarest butterfly.
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 that includes butterflies and moths.About 180,000 species of the Lepidoptera have been described, representing 10% of the total described species of living organisms, making it the second largest insect order (behind Coleoptera) with 126 families and 46 superfamilies, and one of ...
June 15, 2024 at 12:01 PM. All the Photos From Trooping the Colour 2024Samir Hussein. The royal family has reunited for this year’s Trooping the Colour. Trooping the Colour is an annual ...
The queen butterfly (Danaus gilippus) is a North and South American butterfly in the family Nymphalidae with a wingspan of 80–85 mm (3 + 1 ⁄ 8 – 3 + 3 ⁄ 8 in). It is orange or brown with black wing borders and small white forewing spots on its dorsal wing surface, and reddish ventral wing surface fairly similar to the dorsal surface ...
List of Lepidoptera of Belgium. List of butterflies of Belize. List of butterflies of Benin. List of Lepidoptera of Bermuda. List of butterflies of Bhutan. List of Lepidoptera of Bosnia and Herzegovina. List of butterflies of Botswana. List of butterflies of Burkina Faso. List of butterflies of Burundi.