Casi cada primavera durante los últimos 21 años, Bryan Pfeiffer ha recorrido algunos de los pantanos más remotos de Vermont. En el camino, donó sangre a moscas negras, se hundió en el barro y, en ocasiones, se preguntó si saldría vivo de ciertos pantanos.
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(English) The butterflies are out and many of us are eager go butterflying with our cameras and bring images home to share. While I don’t fancy myself as an expert photographer, I sure love to photograph butterflies and other insects. I realized over time that many tricks I took for granted to approach butterflies were foreign to many naturalists especially those new to it. After sharing some tips on how to approach butterflies and better photograph them with friends and colleagues and seeing them come back with much improved results and more species than they use to find, I thought this might be helpful to share.
(English) Vermonters now have another excuse to get outside on sunny days: to join a statewide survey of the most angelic insects—butterflies. The Vermont Center for Ecostudies (VCE) is recruiting volunteers to help search fields and fens, mountains and meadows, and even their own backyards to help document the status of Vermont’s butterflies.
La mariposa monarca migratoria del este está enfrentando una seria amenaza: nuevos informes revelan una disminución significativa en la población y una pérdida de hábitat en los bosques donde pasan el invierno cada año. En solo un año, el área ocupada por las mariposas monarca en su hábitat de invernada disminuyó un 22%, de 7 […]
A medida que llega el momento de hacer balance, el equipo de eButterfly está lleno de gratitud por todo lo que se ha logrado en 2022. Desde el monitoreo individual de mariposas hasta la recopilación de datos sobre la distribución y abundancia de especies, la contribución de nuestra comunidad de participantes apasionados es invaluable para la investigación de lepidópteros.
(English) Glass in Flight, the amazing new glass and steel sculpture exhibit of sparkling butterflies, dragonflies, bamboo, bees and beetles by Alex Heveri, has alighted at the Arizona Sonora Desert Museum!
(English) While on a two-week holiday in Arizona starting in late October, I visited the Ramsey Canyon Nature Conservancy Reserve in the Huachuca Mountains. On a hike up the canyon creek, I came across a small pond covered with a pond weed. A rare and very local Chiricahua White (Neophasia terlootii) orange female (photo 1) landed on the pond weed to drink (strange in itself).
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(English) Terri Armata, one of Vermont’s most ardent butterfly watchers, has done it again. For the second year in a row she has recorded a new butterfly species for Vermont. On June 30th in the far southwest corner of Vermont she photographed a Northern Oak Hairstreak (Satyrium favonius ontario) among the Banded Hairstreaks (Satyrium calanus) nectaring at Common Milkweed.