~ Butterflies ~
Butterflies
of North America
These pages contain, numerous color photographs; textual
descriptions and other information, such as life history,
required habitat, and conservation concerns; and North American
maps indicating the distribution of butterfly populations in the
conterminous U.S. and northern Mexico.
Butterflies.com
Visitors to this site can learn which flowering plants in the United States
will attract butterflies, get information about butterfly physiology and life
cycle, purchase butterfly kits, and see butterfly artwork
The Butterfly WebSite
Here information is provided on butterfly gardening, farming,
ecology and education; lots of pictures of butterflies, moths,
and caterpillars; a list of public butterfly gardens and zoos
worldwide; plans for a butterfly house; and a list of butterfly
societies and association all over the world.
Butterfly
Clip Art Collection
Offered at this site is a large collection of beautiful butterfly
clip art, some animated, that can be freely downloaded.
Butterflies
This informative site offers an outline of butterfly physiology
and descriptions of reproductive stages of butterflies, their
relationship to plants, their defense mechanisms, and the
difference between butterflies and moths.
Lepidoptera
(Butterflies and Moths)
This site contains the Lepidoptera Gallery, a photo gallery of
the Worldwide Museum of Natural History. It contains many
photographs of butterflies and moths. Thumbnail images can be
clicked for more information about that subject and higher
resolution images.
Flutterbies:
Live Butterflies for all Occasions
Offered here by mail order are live monarch butterflies ready to
be released for various occasions such as weddings, birthdays,
anniversaries, showers, and grand openings.
Butterflies
of Ireland
This is a basic guide to the most common Irish butterflies. The
descriptions and photographs provide enough information to enable
people not familiar with Irish butterflies to distinguish among
the common species.
Captain's European
Butterfly Guide
On these pages can be found many of the 440 species of butterfly
that can be found in Europe and North Africa. They may be located
by area or using the systematic index and a table of contents.
There are a few photographs of some UK species and some ideas on
how to capture wild butterflies on film.
The
Lepidoptera Part 1: Butterflies
This site gives an order description of butterflies, referred to
as holometabolous insects. There is an explanation of how
butterflies get their color; a description of how caterpillars
become butterflies; and an extensive list of books about
butterflies with book reviews, price of each book and ISBN
number.
Butterfly
World
These pages describe Butterfly World, the first and largest
butterfly house in the Unites States. There in the tropical rain
forest people can walk among blossoms, trees, vines and some of
thousands of live exotic butterflies. Also mentioned is the Bring
Back the Butterflies campaign, a North American effort to help
restore butterfly populations dwindling because of habitat
destruction due to construction and pesticides.
E-mail Kathy Doig: adoig@wvhome.net 