Tag: butterfly

• The Tawny Emperor Butterfly

  

  The Tawny Emperor (Asterocampa clyton) Butterfly may be beautiful, but their food sure isn’t. Finding an adult on a flower isn’t likely. Instead, you’ll find them on dead animals, poop, mud, and sap, slurping up broths of minerally goodness.

  Devon Bowker

  December 2, 2021

  Animals, Insects and Arachnids, The Wild Life Blog

  biology, butterfly, environment, mudpuddling, naturalist, nature, the wild life, thewildlife

• Mud-Puddling: The Dirty Truth About Butterflies

  

  Ever have a butterfly land on your skin and start licking you and thought “Awe, I’ve got a new best bro!” Well, you were wrong. Butterflies have a dirty secret!

  Devon Bowker

  August 18, 2018

  Animals, Insects and Arachnids, The Wild Life Blog

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• The Wild Life Season 1 Finale: The Metamorphosis Metaphor

  

  In the Season 1 Finale of The Wild Life, Devon and Richard expose the mystery of metamorphosis, what happens inside the chrysalis, whether or not a butterfly remembers or a caterpillar knows, destroy the metamorphosis metaphor, and build it anew, all with the help of Dr. Martha Weiss of Georgetown University.

  Devon Bowker

  July 27, 2018

  Insects and Arachnids, The Podcast, The Wild Life Blog

  biology, bugs, butterfly, caterpillar, change, chrysalos, cocoon, devon bowker, devonthenatureguy, Education, Insects, life history, metamorphosis, moth, naturalist, nature, podcast, reinvention, richard bowker, science, thewildlife, top, wildlife