Butterflies, Zebras, Moonbeams

Product Information

Some different plants and animals would thrive in a warmer, drier climate, and perhaps some species would shift northward. is an eclectic Philadelphia-based boutique label run by guitarist, composer, and producer Tim Motzer. I let leaves lie in the winter, and I try to leave bare patches of soil for ground nesting insects such as bees. This happens because as larvae damage the plant upon eating it, green-leaf volatiles, six carbon alcohols, aldehydes, and acetates, are released.

Lucid, subconscious, introverted, and taking B from Montreal to Los Angeles, this is an intimate perspective on the life of making music. UV rhodopsins in the eye help them to distinguish between 3-OHK yellow pigments, or ultraviolet colors, and other yellow pigments, which to the human eye is indistinguishable. An unusual feature of the longwing, or heliconian, butterflies is that the adults are relatively long lived. We see up years and we see down years, but we can’t get hung up on how many caterpillars we see make it or not make it in a given year.

Pre-roosting interactions, which consist of sitting near one another, chasing each other briefly while fluttering, or basking, [11] occur between butterflies from separate roosts, indicating that the butterflies are aware of other roosts in their home range. Fights consist of males fending off other males that attempt to land on the same pupa by opening their wings. Butterflies, Zebras, Moonbeams is the story of B, a young non-binary woman coming of age in the Montreal music scene. Heliconius charithonia, the zebra longwing or zebra heliconian, is a species of butterfly belonging to the subfamily Heliconiinae of the family Nymphalidae.

charithonia and the gulf fritillary overlap; in some cases, gulf fritillaries can sometimes be subjected to competition and fighting from Heliconius charithonia vazquezae when those species have breeding populations in similar areas and within the same geographic range. I gently let it climb onto my finger and placed it on a twig of a pawpaw sapling (most likely its dining hall as a larva). I’ve seen people get discouraged because they don’t see many caterpillars make it to adulthood in their yards. Opening with a sturdy declaration of sound and intent, the record begins in an emphatic yet slippery way, with the snaky Ornette-esque melody of Davis’ tune “Spicy Water.These cookies are strictly necessary for the operation of the site, you can disable them by changing the settings of your browser but you will not be able to use the site normally. However, mass spraying of naled has decimated the zebra longwing population in Miami-Dade County, Florida [ citation needed]. There are pieces such as the tricky but incessantly swinging “Spicy Water” that have hints of the sharp edges of a Monk tune such as “Brilliant Corners” with Attias and Novoa weaving in and out of the melody like Fiats in Naples. We use cook ies to give you the best online experience and to show personalised content and marketing. Monarchs often leave their milkweed plants when not eating, seeking shelter away from those paper wasps that are always raiding the plants.

Multiple monarchs sip nectar from the pink blooms of Flyer’s nemesis- Brickellia cordifolia, September 2022. UV Photoreceptors and UV-Yellow Wing Pigments in Heliconius Butterflies Allow a Color Signal to Serve Both Mimicry and Intraspecific Communication". Yet, as I spend roughly half the year playing music outside of Brooklyn it occurs to me that while devotees of creative music / improvisation / etc might have a surface-level notion about this, the true extent of this only reveals itself after one spends significant time spent here, and even then still only to a fractional extent. A native wildflower listed as endangered in Florida, it produces pink flowers for about a month from about late August through mid-September. It's an amazing sight when the numbers of adult butterflies increase in the exhibition, and you see 30 or more of them cozying up together.As caterpillars, a favourite meal is the leaf of the toxic passion flower, making them - and the adult butterflies - a deadly snack for predators.

Within a couple of days, the sprout was gone, likely consumed by the caterpillars that hatched from the orange eggs we see here on the growing tip.The adult butterflies are unusual in feeding on pollen as well as on nectar; the pollen enables them to synthesize cyanogenic glycosides that make their bodies toxic to potential predators. Spermatophores are nuptial gifts which serve different functions, one of which is to provide chemicals ( cyanogens) that protect the mother and future offspring from predators. The species is distributed across South and Central America and as far north as southern Texas and peninsular Florida; there are migrations north into other American states in the warmer months. It was a challenge getting close enough to attempt a photo, and quickly became a frustration as the butterfly never sat still while flitting among the clusters of tiny mountain mint flowers.