enow.com Web Search

Search results

1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network

2. Category:Images of butterflies and moths - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Images_of...

   Media in category "Images of butterflies and moths" This category contains only the following file. Plate II Kallima butterfly from Animal Coloration by Frank Evers Beddard 1892.jpg 1,695 × 2,722; 1.77 MB

3. Bird-and-flower painting - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bird-and-flower_painting

   Bird-and-flower painting by Cai Han and Jin Xiaozhu, c. 17th century.. The huaniaohua is proper of 10th century China; and the most representative artists of this period are Huang Quan (哳㥳) (c. 900 – 965), who was an imperial painter for many years, and Xu Xi (徐熙) (937–975), who came from a prominent family but had never entered into officialdom.

4. Owl butterfly - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Owl_butterfly

   Close-up of a Caligo wing. The underwing pattern is highly cryptic.It is conceivable that the eye pattern is a generalized form of mimicry.It is known that many small animals hesitate to go near patterns resembling eyes with a light-colored iris and a large pupil, which matches the appearance of the eyes of many predators that hunt by sight.

5. Aesthetics of nature - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aesthetics_of_nature

   Aesthetics of nature developed as a sub-field of philosophical ethics. In the 18th and 19th century, the aesthetics of nature advanced the concepts of disinterestedness, the pictures, and the introduction of the idea of positive aesthetics. [1] The first major developments of nature occurred in the 18th century.

6. Patterns in nature - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patterns_in_nature

   Patterns in nature are visible regularities of form found in the natural world. These patterns recur in different contexts and can sometimes be modelled mathematically . Natural patterns include symmetries , trees , spirals , meanders , waves , foams , tessellations , cracks and stripes. [ 1 ]

7. Limenitis arthemis - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limenitis_arthemis

   Limenitis arthemis, the red-spotted purple or white admiral, is a North American butterfly species in the cosmopolitan genus Limenitis.It has been studied for its evolution of mimicry, and for the several stable hybrid wing patterns within this nominal species; it is one of the most dramatic examples of hybridization between non-mimetic and mimetic populations.

8. Vanessa (butterfly) - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vanessa_(butterfly)

   Vanessa is a genus of brush-footed butterflies in the tribe Nymphalini.It has a near-global distribution and includes conspicuous species such as the red admirals (e.g., red admiral, Indian red admiral, New Zealand red admiral), the Kamehameha, and the painted ladies of the Cynthia group (formerly a subgenus): Painted lady, American painted lady, West Coast lady, Australian painted lady, etc.

9. Apollo (butterfly) - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_(butterfly)

   Another form of defence is the taste of the butterfly. Similar to the monarch butterfly, the Apollo butterfly produces a repulsive taste to its predator. The butterfly seems to get this foul taste from its plant host, the Sedum stenopetalum. There is a bitter tasting cyanoglucoside, sarmentonsin, which is found in both the butterfly and the plant.