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A Butterfly Ballet at a Special Place

Ruth Charlotte Risdon Storer (1888-1986) would have been proud. The garden that bears her name in the UC Davis Arboretum is Nature at its Best,...

The Western tiger swallowtail (Papilio rutulus)sips nectar from a butterfly bush in the Storer Garden, UC Davis Arboretum. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
The Western tiger swallowtail (Papilio rutulus)sips nectar from a butterfly bush in the Storer Garden, UC Davis Arboretum. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

The Western tiger swallowtail (Papilio rutulus)sips nectar from a butterfly bush in the Storer Garden, UC Davis Arboretum. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Showing her true colors: the  Western tiger swallowtail (Papilio rutulus). (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Showing her true colors: the Western tiger swallowtail (Papilio rutulus). (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Showing her true colors: the Western tiger swallowtail (Papilio rutulus). (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Western tiger swallowtail in flight over a butterfly bush in the Storer Garden. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Western tiger swallowtail in flight over a butterfly bush in the Storer Garden. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Western tiger swallowtail in flight over a butterfly bush in the Storer Garden. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Posted on Friday, June 24, 2016 at 6:18 PM

A Bad Day for a Butterfly

It was a bad day for a butterfly. We stopped by the Ruth Risdon Storer Garden, part of the UC Davis Arboretum, at noon today as triple-digit...

Crab spider with its kill, a cabbage white butterly. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Crab spider with its kill, a cabbage white butterly. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Crab spider with its kill, a cabbage white butterly. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

This one got away. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
This one got away. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

This one got away. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Posted on Monday, July 1, 2013 at 9:24 PM

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