Posts Tagged: Art Shapiro
The Missing Mistletoe and the Non-Purple Great Purple Hairstreak Butterfly
You may not recognize mistletoe unless it sports a red bow and is hanging over a doorway during the holiday season. You may not recognize The...
Mistletoe infests this Modesto ash in Vacaville. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
This is the Great Purple Hairstreak, Atlides halesus. It is misnamed; it is not purple, but iridescent blue. Its host plant is mistletoe. (Photo by Greg Kareofelas)
Suds for a Bug, or a Pitcher of Beer for a Butterfly
Suds for a bug? A bug for some suds? The annual “Beer for a Butterfly” contest, launched in 1972 by butterfly guru Art Shapiro, now...
Cabbage white butterfly, Pieris rapae, on lantana. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Gulf Frit and Tithonia: Showstoppers
The Gulf Fritillary, Agraulis vanillae, and the Mexican sunflower, Tithonia rotundifola, seem made for one another. Both are a showy orange....
A Gulf Fritillary, Agraulis vanillae, fluttering over a Mexican sunflower, Tithonia rotundifola. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
A Little Cinderella
In its larval stage, it's a pest of cole crops. As an adult, it's like a little Cinderella. That would be the cabbage white butterfly,...
A cabbage white butterfly, Pieris rapae, nectaring on lavender in a Vacaville garden. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
The Heat. The Butterflies. The Butterfly Guru.
Don't expect to see UC Davis distinguished professor emeritus Art Shapiro monitoring butterflies on the 4th of July. There's a good reason...
A cabbage white butterfly, Pieris rapae, nectaring on lavender in a Vacaville garden on June 24. Next Wednesday, July 4, promises to be a scorcher at 106 degrees. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
A cabbage white butterfly, Pieris rapae, flutters its wings, ready to fly. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)