Totallybuggin monarch videos to be exhibited at the Florida Museum of Natural History.
September 5th, 2008 A 50-foot, mechanical spider “came alive” today, reports the BBC.
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Jerry V. Haines recently took a trip to Mexico City, and while there visited the Morelia Monarch Butterfly Sanctuary. His story sounds quite amazing!
“I now know what it feels like to be inside a snow globe.
But instead of fake, swirling white snowflakes, substitute butterflies — hundreds, thousands, millions of orange-and-black monarchs — flying around like autumn leaves in a gale. Then, you can envision the scene at the Santuario de la Mariposa Monarca (Monarch Butterfly Sanctuary) near Morelia.”
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For those in Northern California, here are two events at Turtle Bay Exploration Park near Redding. One features butterflies:
Summer takes flight with two enchanting seasonal exhibits. View colorful exotic birds in a walk-in aviary in our new Birds! exhibition. Get closer by feeding them!
Returning for a ninth season is one of Turtle Bay’s most popular exhibitions, Butterflies! Visitors view hundreds of butterflies in a tranquil, enclosed garden.
Through October 1, 2007
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Step into a Spider’s world!
Welcome the return of The Spider Pavilion, the only public spider-viewing center of its kind in the country. With the help of Museum gallery interpreters you can get up close to Orb Weaver spiders as they busily create intricate webs, interact with one another and feed on their prey, just as they do in the wild.
One of the residents on view is the Golden Silk, which builds webs up to three feet across and looks a little like spun gold! Also featured is the Banded Garden spider, producing large crisscross webs that resemble those of the most famous garden spider of all – Charlotte of E. B. White’s “Charlotte’s Web.”
In a separate viewing area are some of the more dangerous members of the arachnid family. Observe large scorpions, tarantulas and other rare spiders safely through terrarium glass.
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Sunday, April 15 to September 3, 2007
Back for its ninth summer, the Pavilion of Wings will open on Sunday, April 15 and run through Labor Day, Monday, September 3, 2007.
Enter a world of free flying butterflies and stroll through a beautifully landscaped temporary exhibit housed at the Museum’s South Lawn. See a giant swallowtail, monarch, American painted Lady or even a California dogface – California’s state butterfly. Over the summer, thirty different butterfly and moth species will call the pavilion home. Discover how butterflies interact with the plants and gain a new understanding of various environmental issues.
Special ticketed admission applies: $3 for adults, $2 for seniors and students and $1 for children ages 5 to 12. Tickets are sold in half-hour time slots through-out the day. Members receive free admission and the first available tickets.
http://www.nhm.org/exhibitions/butterflies/
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TotallyBuggin will be demonstrating our Backyard Bugs software at the Festival. Come see us there! For a description of Backyard Bugs, visit http://www.totallybuggin.com .
Date/Time: July 14th & 15th, 2007, 10am – 4pm Fee: Members Free and Children ages 12 and under; Non-members: $10 Adults, $7 for seniors, military and students.
Explore the wonderful world of insects during Quail Botanical Gardens’ annual Insect Festival. This one-of-a-kind event features thousands of fascinating creepy-crawlies including live insects, lizards, snakes, and the famous “Madagascar hissing cockroaches.” Children 12 and under are admitted free and can practice bug collecting, hands-on insect arts and crafts, and even taste cooked mealworm larva (in various flavors such as mesquite, teriyaki, and barbeque, of course!). Entomologists and other bug experts will be available for questions and more than 10 informational booths will teach and entertain children and adults alike. Dr. Mike Glassey will bring his hawks and owls for some amazing live animal demonstrations and the San Diego Zoo will also participate. Sponsored by Quail Botanical Gardens, The County of San Diego Department of Agriculture, Weights and Measures, and Lloyd Pest Control. General admission costs apply and Lloyd Pest Control is circulating a dollar off per person coupon through its Southern California stores and online at www.lloydpest.com
http://www.qbgardens.org/events/items/071506.shtml
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From the Monarch Watch newsletter: Symposium to Honor Lincoln Brower
As most of you know, Lincoln Brower (emeritus professor of the University of Florida, who now works out of Sweet Briar College in Virginia) is the preeminent monarch specialist in the world.
His numerous papers on monarch biology span 50 years. His strong advocacy for monarch conservation, particularly of the area of the monarch overwintering sites in Mexico, has no parallel and there is no question but that “Linc”, as I know him, has had a critical role in sustaining the monarch population. In recognition of his many contributions, a symposium in his honor will be held as part of the 5th International Conference on the Biology of Butterflies to be held on the 2-7th of July at a villa outside of Rome, Italy (http://biobutterfly2007.uniroma2.it). Speakers at the symposium include Karen Oberhasuer, Sonia Altizer, Myron Zalucki, Steve Malcolm , Richard Vane -Wright, M. Boppre, Andy Brower, Linda Fink and myself, Chip Taylor. In the capstone presentation, Lincoln will present a talk entitled “A half century journey with the monarch butterfly”.
Congratulations to Dr. Brower! He has served as our subject matter expert for The Monarch and Backyard Bugs software. Both are available at http://www.totallybuggin.com
