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#butterflies — Public Fediverse posts

Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #butterflies, aggregated by home.social.

  1. An Apefly (Spalgis epius) spotted in Punggol, Singapore on 25 Oct 2025. A small, rare butterfly whose caterpillar feeds on mealybugs. It gets it name for the supposed resemblance of its pupa to the face of an ape.

    On iNaturalist [ inaturalist.org/observations/3 ].

    #iNaturalist #Nature #Photography #Singapore #Insects #Butterflies #Lepidoptera

  2. An Apefly (Spalgis epius) spotted in Punggol, Singapore on 25 Oct 2025. A small, rare butterfly whose caterpillar feeds on mealybugs. It gets it name for the supposed resemblance of its pupa to the face of an ape.

    On iNaturalist [ inaturalist.org/observations/3 ].

    #iNaturalist #Nature #Photography #Singapore #Insects #Butterflies #Lepidoptera

  3. An Apefly (Spalgis epius) spotted in Punggol, Singapore on 25 Oct 2025. A small, rare butterfly whose caterpillar feeds on mealybugs. It gets it name for the supposed resemblance of its pupa to the face of an ape.

    On iNaturalist [ inaturalist.org/observations/3 ].

    #iNaturalist #Nature #Photography #Singapore #Insects #Butterflies #Lepidoptera

  4. An Apefly (Spalgis epius) spotted in Punggol, Singapore on 25 Oct 2025. A small, rare butterfly whose caterpillar feeds on mealybugs. It gets it name for the supposed resemblance of its pupa to the face of an ape.

    On iNaturalist [ inaturalist.org/observations/3 ].

    #iNaturalist #Nature #Photography #Singapore #Insects #Butterflies #Lepidoptera

  5. Monarch butterfly (Danaus plexippus)
    Butterfly 2025-30

    You can be beyond the tipping point
    Before you notice your falling

    #butterfly #butterflies #monarch #macro #photography #monday #photo #mramsdellpics

  6. Monarch butterfly (Danaus plexippus)
    Butterfly 2025-30

    You can be beyond the tipping point
    Before you notice your falling

    #butterfly #butterflies #monarch #macro #photography #monday #photo #mramsdellpics

  7. Monarch butterfly (Danaus plexippus)
    Butterfly 2025-30

    You can be beyond the tipping point
    Before you notice your falling

    #butterfly #butterflies #monarch #macro #photography #monday #photo #mramsdellpics

  8. Monarch butterfly (Danaus plexippus)
    Butterfly 2025-30

    You can be beyond the tipping point
    Before you notice your falling

    #butterfly #butterflies #monarch #macro #photography #monday #photo #mramsdellpics

  9. Monarch butterfly (Danaus plexippus)
    Butterfly 2025-30

    You can be beyond the tipping point
    Before you notice your falling

    #butterfly #butterflies #monarch #macro #photography #monday #photo #mramsdellpics

  10. First and so far only monarch I've seen this year, of any stage. They'd already eaten everything off the stem they were on so I moved 'em to another one. Good luck li'l critter

    #butterflies #caterpillars #colorado

  11. First and so far only monarch I've seen this year, of any stage. They'd already eaten everything off the stem they were on so I moved 'em to another one. Good luck li'l critter

    #butterflies #caterpillars #colorado

  12. First and so far only monarch I've seen this year, of any stage. They'd already eaten everything off the stem they were on so I moved 'em to another one. Good luck li'l critter

    #butterflies #caterpillars #colorado

  13. First and so far only monarch I've seen this year, of any stage. They'd already eaten everything off the stem they were on so I moved 'em to another one. Good luck li'l critter

    #butterflies #caterpillars #colorado

  14. 💁🏻‍♀️ TIL: 🦋✨ #Butterfly wing #color comes from #pterin crystals that bend and scatter #light rather than absorb it, keeping colors vivid without fading.

    Chemists developed a faster method to grow these #crystals without toxic solvents, producing small amounts of eco-friendly, non-toxic #pigment. The work points toward glitter made from #DNA-related compounds as a planet-friendlier alternative.

    👉 popsci.com/science/dolly-parto

    #butterflies #biomimicry #chemistry #sustainability #science #nature #innovation #northeastern #environment #dollyparton #ecofriendly #materials

  15. This week's #NewBooks at the library: several damaged books saved from going into the bin:
    - True Nature: The Lives of #PeterMatthiessen, published by Chatto & Windus.
    - On Natural Capital: The Value of the World Around Us, published by Witness Books.
    - The Last #Butterflies: A Scientist's Quest to Save a Rare and Vanishing Creature, published by Princeton University Press.

    #Books #Bookstodon #Scicomm #Biography #Economics #Insects #Entomology @princetonupress @bookstodon

  16. #SeedSavingExchange - Learn how to create a garden that will attract #NativePollinators with #SeedSaving in mind.

    Excerpt:

    "Serve Up an Enticing Menu Year-Round

    Flowering plants supply #pollinators like #bees and #butterflies with essential pollen and nectar. #PollinatorFriendly plants also provide a safe shelter for our hard-working insect friends. The most important aspect of any pollinator garden is diversity. Because pollinators are active from April to October, make sure you have a colorful array of continuously blooming flowers from early spring through fall and keep your plants free of pesticides, fungicides, and insecticides.

    Plants should be selected based on the space they will occupy. Specifically, consider your space’s soil type, sun exposure, and moisture levels.

    You may also choose to select plant species to support specific pollinators.

    - To help monarch butterflies, include #milkweeds and high-quality nectar plants like blazingstars.
    - To support #Bumblebees, include plants like #WildBergamot, #hyssop, and #goldenrod.
    - #Sunflowers offer not only a supportive perch but also seeds to help attract #hummingbirds and other feathered friends to your garden. #Honeysuckles are also a great way to attract hummingbirds.

    To ensure that the pollinators will have something to forage from spring through fall, select various natives that flower at different times throughout the growing season. Choosing plants with a variety of flower colors and shapes will also help attract an assortment of insects of a variety of sizes and foraging habits. Larger clusters of a plant species are better for attracting pollinators than several smaller clusters in and around the garden space."

    Learn more:
    seedsavers.org/learn/pollinato

    #SolarPunkSunday #Gardening #GardeningForPollinators #SeedCollection #NativePlants

  17. As a neurodivergent person I'm interested in taxonomy but as a dyslexic person I find it inconvenient that many taxa have unreadable names that differ from other taxa with just one letter.

    papilionoidea (butterflies)
    papilionidae (swallowtails)

    In this case its even two differences, but still it doesn't feel very inclusive to people with learning disabilities (or probably to most people I guess).

    #neurodivergence #neurodiversity #dyslexia #taxonomy #butterflies #inclusion