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Want to see butterflies in your backyard? Try doing less yardwork

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Making the world safer for butterflies can be as easy as doing a bit of nothing.

Letting some part of a yard go unmown can boost the number of butterflies and moths sighted there, says ecologist Richard Fox. That long-grass patch may be as elaborate as an all-native meadow dotted with flowers or as simple as some didn’t-mow corner by the back fence. Nectar-rich blooms that attract the fliers may pop up, but the biggest win comes when caterpillars don’t

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Vladimir Nabokov’s Butterflies | The New Yorker

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On a summer morning, in the legendary Russia of my boyhood, my first glance upon awakening was for the chink between the shutters. If it disclosed a watery pallor, one had better not open the shutters at all, and so be spared the sight of a sullen day sitting for its picture in a puddle. How resentfully one would deduce, from a line of dull light, the leaden sky, the sodden sand, the gruel-like mess of broken brown blossoms under

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The U.S. Government Wants Your Dead Butterflies

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Got any dead butterflies lying around? Consider sending them to the U.S. government.

Officials with the United States Geological Survey, an agency that conducts research on environmental risks, are asking residents in six states to mail in dead butterflies, moths and skippers to help scientists research the causes of the fluttering insects’ population decline, the agency said last week.

Residents in Alabama, Georgia, Kansas, Nebraska, Oklahoma and Texas are being asked to help contribute to the establishment of the Lepidoptera

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Johnny Britt und Will Downing liefern eine faszinierende Performance auf der neuen Single „BUTTERFLIES“ zum Valentinstag | HÖREN

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*Legendärer Trompeter und gefeierter Soulsänger Jonny Britt und R&B-Ikone Will Downing Liefern Sie eine schöne und faszinierende Darbietung, ein neues Lied mit dem Titel „Schmetterlinge“ zum Valentinstag.

Die neue Single „Schmetterlinge“ ist in allen digitalen Formaten am 10. Februar und bei Johnny Britts Live-Konzerten und auf www.JohnnyBritt.com erhältlich.

Als Sänger ist Britt bei seiner ersten neuen R&B-Single zum Valentinstag dabei.Schmetterlinge“ von R&B-Sänger Will Downing. Die beiden Gesangssänger geben den Damen eine Grammy-prämierte und faszinierende

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Can YOU spot the butterflies amid the flower field?

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He’s known for his viral seek-and-find puzzles that have become an internet sensation – and now cartoonist Dudolf is supplying fans with yet another adorable brainteaser. 

The Hungarian artist Gergely Dudas, better known as Dudolf, recently released a new puzzle that challenges fans to find five butterflies fluttering through a field of colourful flowers.

His latest illustration – which features an adorable flower-crown wearing badger – sneaks in five features of the winged creatures. 

The Hungarian artist Gergely Dudas, better

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British photographer wins prestigious contest with an image of a gorilla surrounded by butterflies

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A stunning photograph of a western lowland gorilla walking through a cloud of butterflies in the Central African Republic has taken the grand prize in a renowned photography competition.  

UK photographer Anup Shah took the shot and triumphed over 100,190 entries from 158 countries to take the top prize in The Nature Conservancy‘s 2021 photo contest.

Describing the victorious image, judge Ben Folds, an American singer-songwriter, says: ‘I like photos that keep dragging you in. The face. Tolerance or

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