MetaFilter posts tagged with butterflies

Terence McKenna's Butterflies

homunculus — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 09:52:41 -0800

The Butterfly Hunter. Klea McKenna's photographs of her father's butterfly collection. [Via]

Close-ups of insects

Kattullus — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 22:31:55 -0800

The Insect Close-ups Flickr Pool is full of fascinating pictures. There are all kinds of wonderful images to be found, of spiders, ladybugs, hornets, aphids, grasshoppers, worms, water striders and those superstars of the insect world, bees and butterflies. You can also search a map for pictures by location. If you want to take your own bug photographer Mark Plonsky has written a short how-to guide. He has taken some pretty great photographs of insects himself.

Graffiti for Butterflies

NikitaNikita — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 19:09:45 -0800

Graffiti for Butterflies [via mefi projects] Making signposts and rest areas to help monarch butterflies on their journey.

Surreal in the jungle

nickyskye — Tue, 11 Jul 2006 21:03:21 -0800

Edward James (1907 - 1984) was a millionaire Scottish, art patron and surrealist who moved to Mexico in 1947 to grow orchids. After the orchids were destroyed by a freak snowstorm in 1962, he decided to switch to experiments in architecture. He built a monument to surrealism called Las Pozas, just outside of Xilitla. [more inside]

Paging Father Merrin

billsaysthis — Sat, 19 Feb 2005 14:11:36 -0800

Help Wanted: Exorcist Although I would prefer more Monarch Butterflies, their utility is more visible to me, but perhaps we're just seeing an evolution of the god gene. David Brooks, apparently moving away from his neocon pals, has posted a different help wanted ad while some triumphant right wing Evangelicals are planning a different kind of recruiting .

Exotic Entomology and Fabulous Beasts

plep — Sat, 05 Jul 2003 06:42:39 -0800

Exotic Entomology. 'Provided for your delight are a small number of the world's butterflies and moths, taken from Dru Drury's three-volume monograph entitled Illustrations of Exotic Entomology.'
Related :- Schreber's Fabulous Beasts. 'In 1774 Johann Christian Dan Schreber authored a multivolume set of books entitled Die Saugthiere in Abbildungen nach der Natur mit Beschreibungen. Focusing on mammals of the world, these books were lavishly illustrated with 755 hand-colored plates ... '

butterfly wings and other things

iconomy — Tue, 29 Apr 2003 06:31:12 -0800

It took the Smithsonian author and naturalist Kjell B. Sandved 24 years to find all the letters that went into the butterfly alphabet. Along the way he found butterfly wings imprinted with salutations and smiling, happy faces, and threatening expressions on wings and flowers with menacing expressions that say "Do Not Eat Me". Explore the site yourself by going directly to the gallery without looking at all of the images I've linked to, or read the story of how Sandved discovered his magnificent obsession.

mcwetboy — Sat, 02 Nov 2002 16:01:03 -0800

Butterfly farming, whether it's to provide live, captive-bred butterflies or framed insects, is a way for people to generate income by nurturing rainforest habitat rather than cutting it down. It's happening in places like Costa Rica, the Philippines and Papua New Guinea. But you can also raise butterflies yourself.

fusinski — Tue, 06 Mar 2001 19:22:17 -0800

Loggers Said to Wipe Out 22 Million Butterflies It appears that 22 million Monarch butterflies were illegally slaughtered through the use of pesticide in two Mexican butterfly sanctuaries so that loggers can have more forest to tear down. This makes me sick... how can people do stuff like this?

plinth — Fri, 02 Jun 2000 07:26:11 -0800

I used to raise lepidoptera as a kid. Other people still do, and some even sell livestock.