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Sentence Examples The ones I missed right off the bat were the swallow-tailed butterflies, the long-tailed hummingbird and Lignum Vitae trees. A wildflower garden is ecologically sound, creating a habitat for a host of species such as bees and butterflies. The large pendulous flower clusters of the wisteria vine are quite appealing to butterflies in late spring. Beds of nettles are slashed to the ground when the caterpillars of red admiral and other butterflies are hatching for next year's generation. Not just the usual cabbage whites this year, but tortoiseshells, red admirals, painted ladies and peacock butterflies too. How did he get to the remote regions of the earth to collect exotic butterflies and Komodo dragons? We're building habitats to encourage birds, butterflies, dragonflies and ladybugs to our gardens. Kemi chased the butterflies until they flew away, and then she yowled for more playthings. Birds filled the air with their song while butterflies danced amongst the wild flowers. The zebra longwing butterflies entertained me and a lot of other folks that summer and fall. Thyme, rosemary, marjoram and lavender will act as a magnet for bees and butterflies. It could be likened to the specialised needs of a lepidopterist researching the markings of a species of butterflies to be found only in Borneo. Although I am a lepidopterist, not a visual ecologist, I am often asked just what colors in flowers best attract butterflies. Who is the elegant maiden dressed in silk with a vermilion inner-robe patterned with golden butterflies? Small apollo butterflies demonstrate various means of defense to increase their chances of survival. The wildflower meadows provide shelter for a variety of butterflies, such as common blue, holly blue, orange tip, ringlet and meadow brown. Set against a blue background, the butterflies are connected to rods and wires that move their wings and simulate flight. I was walking through the reserve the other day counting butterflies for the Trust and, lo and behold, I saw this young roe deer. The areas often support many rare or uncommon species such as northern brown argus butterflies and wood bitter vetch. His collection is studded with minute and colorful representations of butterflies, shells, rosebuds and arrangements of fruit. Show More Sentences Purple asters bloom in fall, attracting monarch butterflies and providing one last blast of color when many blooms have faded. Moths are generally distinguished from butterflies by their drabness, yet the luna moth is almost flamboyant. The butterflies have tiger striped underwings and little black tails on their back wings. Azures have a slow, fluttering flight and are often one of the first butterflies encountered when the first warm weather of spring arrives. But Harry will not be getting any butterflies before he makes his bow after 15 years experience in the butchers trade. The brilliant orange, red flowers of the scarlet runnerbean supply nectar all summer long for hummingbirds and butterflies. The grassland supports man orchids, together with butterflies such as the brown argus, common blue and dark green fritillary. The mantis will attack butterflies, bees, beetles, frogs, spiders, mice, lizards, and small birds. Spiders and butterflies and mantises, being pretty solitary for the most part, are easier to identify with. A number of butterflies are also present, including marbled white, meadow brown, small heath and small skipper. A stand of yellow mariposa lilies explodes below, while white Pieris butterflies flit just out of reach. Balanchine thought ballets were like butterflies that could not be kept from one generation to the next. These all feed on pteropods, or sea butterflies, one of the species most threatened by rising acidity. The opisthobranchs include the sea slugs and their relatives the sea hares, sea butterflies, canoe shells, and others. The divers visit a small skerrig surrounded by a kelp forest with nudibranchs, comb jellyfish and sea butterflies. He sees the red and black-winged monarch butterflies hanging thickly on the branches. Finally, butterflies like some flat stones for basking or sunbathing to gather warmth for powering their wings. Sam showed slides including salt-tolerant species of sea-lavender and thrift, moving on to moths and butterflies. Take the oft-cited classic case of Batesian mimicry involving the dead-ringer resemblance between monarch and viceroy butterflies. The pride of the museum is a portrait of Queen Maria Louisa made of butterflies. Show More Sentences These trees provided food to bats, and many herbivorous mammals, insects, butterflies and bees. Every tree, every bush, even the grass, all covered in butterflies, gently beating their wings, and flying delicately from one perch to another. The family of metalmark butterflies consists of little metalmarks and northern metalmarks. I had my first jobs when I was in kindergarten picking apples, topping onions and catching cabbage butterflies. The microdistribution of butterflies may be affected by food distribution, microclimatically favourable spots, or mate-locating sites. The birds, butterflies, and stylized ivy in beautiful pastel shook me to my core. As milkweed dies, surviving butterflies begin their long, unwavering flights back to the sheltered groves that safeguarded their ancestors. But there are also plenty of away-from-the-computer projects, such as drawing monarch butterflies and minting your own coins. In warm weather a mister will be attractive to hummingbirds and butterflies too! I have to admit that I had butterflies the size of bulldozers flapping around in my tum as I walked him round the corner to nursery school. A tropical rainforest reserve surrounds the town and a huge variety of butterflies and screaming monkeys live among its 50-metre trees. On close inspection, you will see that butterflies have very large eyes, allowing them to see in every direction without turning their heads. This can be prevented by using light plastic netting to keep the butterflies out. They are typically southern and eastern butterflies, frequenting hot, rocky slopes where their foodplant, the bladder senna, grows. Native to the American tropics, morpho butterflies are distinguished by their brilliant iridescent blue wings. These bats are strictly insectivorous and may be further limited in diet to moths and butterflies. It won't discriminate between pest caterpillars and those of desirable moths and butterflies. More than half of Britain's 2,500 species of butterflies and moths are found here. There's the butterfly house, a riot of colourful plants and animals with more than 60 species of butterflies and moths. They will turn into chrysalises and, after a few weeks, into butterflies or moths. Show More Sentences She brought with her a collection of bees, butterflies, flies, moths, and others. Bats and nocturnal moths take to the wing, while butterflies settle and flowers begin to close their petals. This is despite it being no more than six feet wide in places and a haven for birds, mammals, butterflies, moths and wild flowers. The first of these, mourning cloak butterflies, usually remain in crevices outside and only rarely make it into the cabin. Doug talks about some local species of butterflies, ones with cool names like mourning cloaks, commas, and question marks. Clouds of metallic blue butterflies dispersed off their gold and waxen perches and rippled over his head. Some butterflies they attract are spicebush swallowtails, monarchs, fritillaries, whites, skippers, and a host of others. The dress had an embroidered bodice that was light purple with white embroidered butterflies that were defiantly doing something eldritch. The principal collections are those of ants, termites and myrmecophiles, of grasshoppers and crickets and of butterflies. The nature reserve is home to scores of rare breeds of birds, butterflies and mammals, and is rich in natural history. Her stomach was full of butterflies, because first period was about to let out for break. Her imagery includes a dog and palm tree, a Venus flytrap and butterflies, a William Morris-type gerbera pattern, and a pineapple. The area is also home to an array of butterflies such as the peacock and speckled wood and a number of species of dragonflies. It wasn't long before the children were spotting deer tracks, gopher burrows, butterflies, hornets' nests and budding flowers. If bees and butterflies have apiaries and ants have formicaries, wasps have vespiaries. Birds, bees, butterflies, bugs, bats, native plants and night-scented flowers have all figured in my postbag in recent weeks. They counted gastropods, spiders, beetles and bugs, butterflies, lacewings and bees. This occurs in, among other animals, butterflies, spiders, birds, and small mammals. The butterflies leapt into flight, spiraling up into the sunlight, up and up until Joshua could no longer see them. You can enjoy a walk in the nearby Dubare forest and see many of nature's splendours, from birds to butterflies. Show More Sentences Does all this variation in spottiness make a difference to the butterflies? The toxins derived from this variety are toxic only to the larvae of butterflies and moths. These are visited by a diverse array of animals, including bees, hawk moths, beetles, butterflies, long-tongued flies, hummingbirds and bats. Large numbers of butterflies and moths are flying in most fields and another generation of many pests is likely. In his museum at Tring, which is just north-west of London, he had two and a quarter million butterflies and moths alone. They are absurd, attractive, brightly coloured butterflies about to be pinned down by the coming conflict in Europe. We find many examples of this in insects, such as butterflies and Orthopterans. Though some plants are pollinated by bats, birds, butterflies, moths, and wasps, most of the work is done by bees. Social butterflies were in their element during Seniors Week 2002, which came to a close on the weekend. After years of hiding away, will they suddenly become social butterflies, ready to take on the world? The way Michael was looking Jessica over made the butterflies in her stomach flutter and spin. With butterflies fluttering in their stomachs, pupils flocked to their schools to find out if all their hard work had paid off. His stance was relaxed, almost lazy and languid, and I felt butterflies fluttering around my stomach when he caught my gaze and held it. My heart was beating against the walls of my rib cage and there was a flutter of butterflies in my stomach. Oh, how she missed those mystifying green eyes and that dashingly handsome smile that sent fluttering butterflies down her stomach. I exclaimed with a smile trying to hide the nervous butterflies in my stomach. No, I was thinking about how the light shined into his hair and how his nervous chuckle caused butterflies in my stomach. I'm not yet a good driver, nor a completely confident one but at least the idea of doing it no longer sets butterflies fluttering in my stomach. Amanda felt the butterflies in her stomach flutter their wings as she approached the stables. She felt the butterflies fluttering in her stomach and she prayed they would never go away. Show More Sentences The rest of the week flew by, and as Friday rehearsal rolled around, I was getting nervous butterflies in my stomach. This was to be my first real public duty as a guardsman and butterflies fluttered in my stomach. His Adam's apple bobbed up and down, which sent butterflies fluttering in her stomach. Nervous butterflies fluttered in her stomach every time a messenger or lower official left Orwell's tent for fear that it might be Smith. He still felt a great sensation of butterflies in his stomach though, now more so than ever, as he had no idea what to expect. Dear, dear, I enjoy my little butterflies, but you've quite progressed from a butterfly into a butthead. If I have an infestation of slugs or snails or cabbage white butterflies then I will get rid of them in whatever way I choose. It included specimens of fourteen insect orders, with major holdings of New Zealand moths, butterflies, beetles, stoners, caddis and bugs. In feeding blue butterflies, the wings are held slightly open to allow body basking, augmented by the hairiness of the dark body. The leaves serve as host for the larvae of two butterflies, the white hairstreak and the brown duskywing. For the last two weeks I've seen a bunch of small hairstreak butterflies flying around one of the bushes outside. Trees stabilize the ecosystem for butterflies like the great purple hairstreak. But we did capture and identify countless leafhoppers, field crickets, earwigs and cabbage butterflies. When you visit the Butterfly Wing, one of the most remarkable butterflies you will see is the giant wood nymph, Idea leuconoe. Furthermore, these gene duplications evolved after the split between the common ancestor of nymphalid and papilionid butterflies. Its leaves are a deep glossy-green and it bears fragrant, starry, white flowers that are frequented by butterflies. Even the loss of a few trees from the canopy hurts overwintering butterflies. The reserve is also home to mountain reedbucks, common duikers, hares, guinea fowl and butterflies. The new pond has been created to encourage frogs, newts, toads, dragonflies and butterflies. Yellow butterflies flit from golden lantana bushes to the pink and white oleander blooms. Show More Sentences Calendar spreads, straddles, strangles and butterflies are some of the strategies designed to profit from those types of situations. Flying to several sites to deposit eggs is a strategy used by all moths and butterflies whose caterpillars must hide from predators. The children compared one state of growth to another as the larvae became caterpillars, then butterflies. There is also a good variety of butterflies including chalkhill blue, silver-spotted skipper and marbled white. Chalk downland has several butterflies found nowhere else, and the chalkhill blue is one of these. Ancient Wings allows users to see how the ventral hindwing of 54 butterflies in the genus Bicyclus have changed over time. Create a shallow puddle to attract swallowtails, blues, sulfurs and other butterflies that enjoy drinking at mud puddles. The sulfur butterflies, Colias philodice and C. eurytheme, are economic pests of alfalfa and clover crops. There are certain minerals that some butterflies, such as swallowtails, sulfurs, and blues need that are not provided in a diet of nectar alone. By contrast, cherry pie and ageratum are both nectar-rich bedding plants that are open to all and particularly easy for butterflies to feed from. A slender ballerina poised on a strongly arched foot, black hair in a chignon, eyes like great black butterflies. Brightly painted butterflies and Easter eggs are drawn with black outlines and colors that seem to come from a child's paintbox. Honesty flowers early in the year and provides nectar for early butterflies such as the orange tip. It is entirely ebonized and has gilded panels decorated with birds, butterflies, palmettes, and flowers. This tree is also a host to Charaxes butterflies, one of which is the magnificent blue-spotted Emperor butterfly. Meanwhile, most fish, birds, and reptiles still have four kinds of cones, and some butterflies, like the Japanese yellow swallowtail, have five. Some studies have shown that monarch larva die when fed Bt pollen, although other studies of swallowtail butterflies show little effect. Examples where intraspecific variation is apparently restricted to degree rather than direction include fruit flies and swallowtail butterflies. Australian butterflies are from the families of whites, browns, blues and swallowtails, unbelievably sensible names. In summer, swallowtail butterflies drift through the garden, riding the breeze on black or yellow wings. Show More Sentences They can be as graceful as the swallowtail butterflies drifting by on a summer day. The facility's original design included a display case for visitors to observe the actual emergence of the butterflies from their chrysalids. Images of chrysalises and butterflies suggest regeneration for the survivors. Then, over the course of several weeks, the children watched the caterpillars grow bigger, spin their chrysalises, and emerge as butterflies. After feeding, caterpillars pupate in a chrysalis, then transform into beautiful butterflies. As the dancers broke through like butterflies from a chrysalis, the fabric hung from them limply, like some remnant of an earlier life stage. In summer, butterflies drifted between trenches, birds sang, clouds shifted in the sky, the sun moved slow as an hour hand on a clock. The purpose of the exercise is not to turn the butterflies into paragons of health, but rather to test their long-distance flight performance. Flowers, in white or shades of pink, are carried in late summer and into autumn, attracting butterflies, bees and hoverflies on warm, sunny days. Although the garden hosts a variety of nectar flowers, the butterflies concentrate when anise hyssop and Joe-pye weed bloom. Usually a girl like me would be up in the clouds, in la la land or wherever the rainbows shone and the butterflies flew. Fashion designers have turned the runway into a fairyland of heavenly creations embroidered with vines and butterflies. Like your butterflies, beneficial insects are cold-blooded and don't like cold, windy weather. You have forgotten all your nervousness and butterflies, and you are just acting on impulses. Deep-throated blooms such as columbines and salvias best serve butterflies with longer tongues. In all shapes, sizes and more than anything, in those indefinable vibrant shades, butterflies seem to carry an uncanny beauty about them. Here we use gene genealogies to investigate the phylogeny of recent speciation in the heliconiine butterflies. Preserving indigenes like butterflies in amber, even on the upper Nile, was impossible. They look like they are pierids, relatives of the cabbage white. I also have been seeing some Plain Tiger butterflies flying through. This paper describes a case study of adaptation, constraint, and evolutionary innovation in pierid butterflies. Show More Sentences However, in populations where specialist pierid butterflies are the main herbivore, genetically determined glucosinolate levels are quite low. Using a whole-genome microarray, we studied the expression profile of Arabidopsis thaliana leaves after oviposition by two pierid butterflies. Members of the composite family are powerful attractors of beneficial insects, as well as bees and butterflies. We started off at Tropical World where we saw huge butterflies, pygmy monkeys, snakes and all sorts of fish. The California pitcher plant, largest of the five killer plant species found here, will even consume butterflies, if it gets the chance. So these butterflies are making use of more than the visible portion of the spectrum in order to make itself conspicuous. The joy of it is in the sweat and butterflies, the clamped lips and steely eyes of the poker face. But populations of frogs, butterflies, ocean corals, and polar birds have already gone extinct because of climate change, Parmesan said. Blue and white butterflies fluttered to and fro, and small furry forest creatures scurried about. The butterflies that were fluttering around the flowers quickly left the area and an eerie silence filled the clearing. En route she encounters buzzards, a peregrine and high brown fritillary butterflies, otters and kingfishers. I was delighted to see some beautiful butterflies on flowering shrubs in the gardens fronting a busy, air-polluted road in Penge. Suddenly the butterflies that Derby had been displaying at the latter stages of the first half were developing into full-blown jitters. The danaid butterflies, such as the Monarch, are well recognised to be doubly defended from predators by two classes of plant-derived toxins. Danaids are large, robust butterflies that contain some of the longest-lived butterflies in the world. Its upper door panels are painted with birds and butterflies on a gilded background. I also couldn't help noticing a few butterflies that, defying all laws of nature, were living in my stomach. The globe thistle requires no staking, reaches heights of over a metre, and will attract bees and butterflies to join the throbbing throng. Pull on the spider's leg to catapult him up, so he can chow down on flying bees, gnats and butterflies. Teasel provides nectar for bees and butterflies, and the seedheads supply seeds for goldfinches and crossbills. Show More Sentences I'm sure I'll get a rush of butterflies and the goosebumps, as well as tingles round the spine. I also believe in puppy-dogs and a child's sparkling eyes, in laughter and smiles, in sunflowers and butterflies. Monarch butterflies that winter in California's Pismo Beach, especially males that had a demanding day, search out dewdrops as a water source. It's a phenomenon known as bilateral gynandromorphy, and it's been observed in butterflies, moths, and lobsters. I feel butterflies in my belly as I watch William Hutt enter from up stage center greeted by a long round of applause. After all the years, I'm still keen to watch butterflies and moths, and more recently to collect aculeates. It includes butterflies and dragonflies made of mother-of-pearl, abalone and malachite inlays. The wood abounds with wildlife, including badgers, foxes, shrews, butterflies and an array of birds. Alfalfa butterflies, painted ladies, woolly bears and various other species have been abundant all summer. Bird life is abundant, but the number and variety of butterflies is extraordinary. Yarrow and Queen Anne's lace are popular with butterflies, but can be aggressive spreaders. In the spring children catch butterflies, and in the summer they play with aquatic whirhgig beetles, true water beetles, and snails. I plan to spend ack emma hunting butterflies and pip emma reading my favorite American authors, Webster, Scudder, and Gray. There was no reason for the rabble of butterflies that seemed to be having a rave in my stomach. The hypnotic flapping was like a rabble of butterflies beating their wings. We arrived at the grounds after following a rabble of butterflies through the streets. The ground here was deeply cracked from a rainless month, a pair of courting brown butterflies climbed high into the sky. Excellent, a whole meal of stomach butterflies, jumpy heartbeats, racing pulses, and having to watch my step. Bees and butterflies can see ultraviolet rays, and bats and porpoises can hear sounds two octaves beyond our range. His book on ecological genetics went through several editions and his monographs on moths and butterflies are still used. Show More Sentences This is a traditional and natural method of maintaining chalk downland and it helps create a habitat which encourages wild flowers and butterflies. We drove a few miles to the visitor centre, and then walked along a nature trail, surrounded by knapweed and cocksfoot, home to butterflies and dragonflies. Farrow smiles and butterflies flutter and stars shoot across the night sky. Or that one time Mariah Carey rambled four minutes about butterflies and then blew glitter into the wind? Judge Heidi Klum floated across stage as if carried by a fleet of butterflies. We watched a group of airborne insects break out of cocoons two stories above the street, crawl down the side of the building, then back up again as butterflies. The birds in the mountains and forests might include ring ouzels, alpine accentors, wallcreepers, nutcrackers, and we will find alpine flowers and butterflies. Jacamars prefer to eat large, showy, flying insects such as blue morpho butterflies, hawk moths, and venomous insects such as wasps, ants, and sawflies. However, in place of the suggestive delicacy of traditional ink painting, his bees and butterflies are realized with the blowsy directness of American Pop art. A rabble of butterflies flitted through a well-tended garden. Have you ever imagined what a million butterflies would look like? I'm delighted that mangrove skipper butterflies find them to their liking. Melody had surprised herself with how calm she had acted and appeared even though inside a swarm of butterflies flitted nervously and a shiver ran down her spine. The sun was shining too, and birds and butterflies were flying about. Thoughts flitted across my mind like butterflies in a flowery meadow. It will not be the crowd or the prospect of penalties that will induce butterflies in the game's most hyped striker, nor even thoughts of the first whistle sounding at 8pm. You know, swimming in lakes, collecting miniature butterflies and putting them in boxes and writing letters to nymphs. If you want tiger swallowtail butterflies, plant a willow tree. Heaven is a airy place, filled with clouds, butterflies, and flowers. We were all watching an improving video about butterflies when the voice-over stated that witchetty grubs are high in protein and very low in cholesterol. Show More Sentences The insecticide spraying programs have wiped out dozens of native moths and butterflies, probably doing more damage than the gypsy moth would have done. He was born in 1936, spent a happy childhood botanising and collecting butterflies in Kent, was educated at Tonbridge, then Cambridge where he read Genetics. Insects such as houseflies, bedbugs, locusts, butterflies, honeybees, silkworms, lac insects etc. are well known to mankind, largely due to their economic importance. It was still early enough in the morning for there to be the hint of a land breeze, and on that day there were hordes of dainty white and yellow butterflies everywhere. It is hoped that birds such as the lapwing, skylark and redshank will increasingly use the sites as well as butterflies such as the green hairstreak. Fennel is a great larval plant for certain species of butterflies. The park was transformed from wasteland in 1997 and is home to a fascinating array of wildlife including frogs, toads, newts, dragonflies, damselflies, butterflies and birds. Keep cabbages, Brussels sprouts and cauliflowers covered with horticultural fleece or a fine netting to prevent cabbage white butterflies from laying eggs. I felt my heart flutter in my chest as butterflies stirred in my stomach. In the past, butterflies were distinguished from moths in that they flew during the day, possessed clubbed antennae, were brightly colored, and lacked a frenulum. I'll get the rush of butterflies, the goosebumps, tingles down the spine. The students also sighted the endangered species of butterflies such as the Southern Birdwing, Malabar branded swallowtail and the Malabar Rose during the camp. The trip will include a visit to the famous dry grasslands of Kielheim, excellent for spotting butterflies such as Camberwell beauties, field crickets, and green lizards. There are plenty of birds too including shrikes, stonechats and larks, and butterflies including swallowtails, and in the woodland glades, Camberwell beauties. The flea market offers many unique items including mounted butterflies and Russian dolls featuring former Soviet leaders and past American presidents. Citrus attracts the swallowtail butterfly, and the larvae resemble bird droppings, but you will want to leave the young alone for the sake of future butterflies. Wrasse, butterflies, boxfish, porcupines and pufferfish round out the picture, while lyretail grouper, Napoleon wrasse and rock cod mix with regal, map and other angelfish. Root-hardy almond verbena has sandpapery foliage and produces fingerlike clusters of small white almond-scented flowers that attract butterflies and hummingbirds. A review of a book on British butterflies and their collectors may seem more appropriate to the pages of an entomological journal than to American Zoologist. The ugly thing looked more like an urn than a vase and was adorned with small flowers and butterflies painted on the surface with real gold and silver. Show More Sentences There are still 226 plant and animal species and 41 natural habitats under threat in Scotland, including capercaillies, cornflowers, red squirrels, dolphins and butterflies. Between dives, there is the whole park to explore, a lagoon with manatees, turtle pools, flamingos, parrots, pumas, jaguars, butterflies and a few small Mayan ruins. Secondary pollinators were diurnal hawk moths and butterflies. Ironically, Roland's work on alpine butterflies and tent caterpillars in patchy environments represents some of the best fieldwork to date on movement and scale. As well as their important compost-creating role, nettles also provide excellent food for some butterflies and moths and are much-loved by ladybirds. Darwin the gentleman was secure in his world of privilege and power while Wallace the impoverished enthusiast scraped a living selling butterflies and birdskins. We caught butterflies in the patches of wildflowers, encased fireflies in Mason jars, and ran down horned frogs which we'd keep all summer and release before school started. Bombyx shares this problem with other moths and butterflies. In the windows passers-by will see a plethora of wildlife, including butterflies, insects and moths, which have lived in the building at one point in its history. After a good autumn feed-up, snails, bats, butterflies, snakes, ladybirds, dormice and others find somewhere they hope will remain undisturbed and usually dry. All Nymph and Danaid butterflies are strong and rapid fliers. Caterpillars grown from larvae and chrysalises developed into butterflies. For example, the differences between forewings and hindwings of insects with two pairs of wings, such as butterflies, are probably regulated by the Ubx gene. And the page was not the preferred location for social butterflies. We're not social butterflies so we don't do all that much of that. They also kill pollinating insects such as bees and butterflies. They sweetly scented flowers will attract butterflies to your garden. Following their re-emergence in early spring, the mature peacock butterflies feed on flowering sallows, dandelions, wild marjoram, danewort and clover fields. In our meadows and some of our wilder gardens, beggarticks have run rampant with all the rain we've had here in north Florida and the butterflies are loving it. Their eyes locked and Lily felt the butterflies fluttering in her stomach. Show More Sentences Kenn Kaufman is the author of eight books on nature, including Kingbird Highway and field guides to North American birds, butterflies and mammals. Lethya walked down the hall, butterflies fluttering in her stomach. Endowed with an insatiable appetite for milkweed, and almost always in close proximity to the plant, these larvae eventually turn into butterflies and continue flying north. I need information on the milkweed that attracts monarch butterflies. Geoff Sowden, of Haxby, contacted the Evening Press when he noticed the distinctive orange and black butterflies filling his garden every morning. With muddled thoughts, sweaty palms, poor command over the language, and butterflies in the stomach, the girl sees expectant eyes, all glued on her. Bamboo groves, a canopy provided by trees, a tree house and a display of photographs of butterflies found fluttering in the park are the other attractions. Friends have been metamorphosing like butterflies, healing bad habits and addictions. Cooling fountains mask traffic noise, while hummingbirds and butterflies explore the charms of tuberoses, heliotrope, and other plants chosen for their sensual appeal. The list of butterflies found here is impressive with Duke of Burgundy and dingy skipper in spring, together with small, common and chalkhill blues. Along with these plants come butterflies such as the common and chalkhill blues, blue and green hairstreak, marbled whites, and the nationally scarce Adonis blue. My heart pounded, and the butterflies in my stomach fluttered. For example, some flowers that look white to us sport ultraviolet markings, showing butterflies exactly where to land and insert the proboscis for nectar. Chocolate brown velvet coats or trousers were decorated with cream leather flames or different-sized metal eyelets sewn in the shape of big butterflies. Some of these twiners are a food source for birdwing butterflies. The blue morpho family of butterflies, from the rainforests of Central and South America, catch the light in their wings to conjure dazzling displays. Stencil flowers and butterflies on a drab storage chest for garden tools or create depth and texture on an old hutch with some paint and a sponge. Hope's stomach clenched nervously against the butterflies flitting about. I began to feel the beginnings of butterflies fluttering in my stomach. Now the BBC's Springwatch survey reveals where the first bumblebees, seven-spot ladybirds, peacock butterflies, swifts, frogspawn and hawthorn have been spotted. Show More Sentences Two of the gardens, planted with flowers and shrubs that attract butterflies and birds, are whimsically designed in the shape of a violin and two eighth notes. Examples include butterflies ovipositing on host plants, beetles and flies on dung pats, parasitoid wasps on insect hosts, and many insects on seeds or fruit. The class learned about how caterpillars undergo metamorphosis to become butterflies. Feed butterflies before they go into hibernation by planting nectar-rich, autumn-flowering Michaelmas daisies and ice plants or Sedum Autumn Joy. This vascular plants, breeding birds, butterflies, mosses, molluscs and EPT may be charged. They attract bees and butterflies and are at home alongside monarda and globe thistle. Young viewers learn about everything from the exotic giant Elephant Beetle and Madagascar Cockroach to common earthworms and butterflies. Familiar butterflies whose numbers were reduced include holly blue, all three common whites, speckled wood and red admiral. Herbs and plants, such as mint, lavender and buddleja, can encourage butterflies like large and small white and red admiral. Everybody knows butterflies adore buddleia, but the caterpillars of the red admiral love nettles. The robe has butterflies embroidered in silk on the sleeves. And even butterflies are sticking around with red admirals being most commonly seen around plants like ivy. As well as nettles, kidney vetch and trefoil are the top plants for attracting butterflies. Create a butterfly garden French marigold, sweet smelling lavender, buddleia and red valerian are favourites of butterflies. Upon close inspection, male butterflies had smaller forewings at higher ground radiation doses. A large number of these birds feed on butterflies, like the Bicyclus anynana. Early butterflies are also on the wing, including the bright green brimstone and small tortoiseshells fluttering out of hibernation to lay eggs. Attics, garages and sheds are also favoured by some of our most spectacular butterflies, such as small tortoiseshells and peacocks. Small tortoiseshells and peacock butterflies can begin to look for suitable sites to hibernate quite early in the year. It is a riot of knapweed, tansy, meadowsweet, purple loosestrife and goldenrod and lots of butterflies. 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