Sentences with phrase «painted lady butterflies»

But after posting the image above to social media, the scientists got their answer: it was an enormous group of painted lady butterflies, slowly making their way from north down to warmer climes in the south.

«Migrating butterflies in high quantities explains it,» they said, after coming to the conclusion that the painted lady butterflies, which travel between the central and southwestern United States and northern Mexico every autumn, showed up on the radar due to their large wings and because they were all flying in the same direction.

We observe the life cycle of Painted Lady butterflies, as they grow from caterpillar to chrysalis to butterfly.

The radars recorded medium - sized insects (hoverflies, ladybird beetles, and water boatmen) and large ones (hawk moths, painted lady butterflies, and aquatic beetles) flying between 150 meters and 1200 meters high; balloon sampling flights helped provide estimated counts for smaller insects.

Painted lady butterflies» migration may take them across the Sahara.

In recent years Aspen Heights students were in charge of raising and releasing into the wild 300 - 400 painted lady butterflies, 300 - 500 Chinese praying mantises, and 10,000 ladybugs — as approved by Agriculture Canada.

Back to Africa: autumn migration of the painted lady butterfly Vanessa cardui is timed to coincide with an increase in resource availability.

Not exact matches

The butterflies at the moment are becoming quite plentiful; there are Black Swallowtails, Zebra Swallowtails, Tiger Swallowtails, but also Red Admirals, and Painted Ladies, and a host of others.

Constantí Stefanescu, a butterfly expert at the Museum of Natural Sciences in Granollers, Spain, has been tracking the painted lady migrations.