#Glanville fritillary

[petec9099]

Highlights of 2023 (6): Butterflies of Hutchinsons Bank

[insidecroydon]

Butterfly experts in flap over 'extinct' species in New Addington

The sighting of a butterfly thought to have been extinct for nearly 100 years at Hutchinson’s Bank at the weekend has put wildlife enthusiasts into a bit of a flap. Spotted: Frank Gardner’s ‘trophy’ photo of the black-veined white butterfly at Hutchinsons Bank from Saturday The sighting of the black-veined white butterfly was made by Frank Gardner, the BBC’s security correspondent and an amateur…

[sebastienblommephotography]

Belle mélitée 📷 @sebastien_blomme 🇫🇷 Ce joli papillon est une mélitée du plantin. J'avoue que je ne le photographie pas très souvent malgré sa beauté. Et c'est un tort car c'est non seulement un papillon magnifique, mais en plus il se pose très tôt avant le coucher du soleil ce qui facilite le travail du photographe 😊 🇬🇧 This pretty butterfly is a Glanville Fritillary. I admit that I don't photograph it very often despite its beauty. And it's a mistake because not only is it a magnificent butterfly, but it also lands very early before sunset, which makes the photographer's job easier 😊 https://ift.tt/A3BbOoT

[all-the-polls]

Butterflies 🦋

[viscommblogs]

May 15th - Experiment research

First I looked for a list of the red list species of butterflies

Half of British butterfly species on new Red List | Butterfly Conservation (butterfly-conservation.org)

Revised Red List of British Butterflies | Zenodo

A revised Red List of British butterflies

Richard Fox1 & Emily B. Dennis1

1 Butterfly Conservation, Manor Yard, East Lulworth, Dorset BH20 5QP, UK.

Using this list I am going to research these butterflies to find images.

Black Hairstreak

Glanville Fratillery

Grayling

Heath Fritillary

High Brown Fritillary

Large heath

Wall

Wood White

Using these images I am going to create experimentations in different ways considering shape and lines to see how I could create a themed typeface connecting to the red list of butterflies.

[cool-critters]

Glanville fritillary (Melitaea cinxia)

The Glanville fritillary is a butterfly of the family Nymphalidae. These butterflies live in almost all of Europe, especially Finland, and in parts of northwest Africa. It has been discovered that this butterfly only mates one time in June or July and lays its eggs. It does not provide any protection to these eggs or care for the offspring. As adults, the Glanville fritillaries are short-lived; they spend most of their lives as caterpillars. As caterpillars, Glanville fritillaries enter a stage of diapause, which is a period of suspended development, during the winter time. The spiked speedwell and ribwort plantain are the Glanville fritillary's preferred plants to lay eggs and to eat as larvae. Female butterflies will show a preference for one plant species over the other when deciding where to lay their eggs, but the caterpillars have no preference once they hatch. After entering the adult phase the fritillaries feed on nectar of the spiked speedwell and ribwort plantain, among others. This species of butterfly is at risk of population decline because it is not a migratory species. 

photo credits: Harald Süpfle, Sven Damerow

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Okkergul pletvinge (Melitaea cinxia)

Glanville fritillary (Melitaea cinxia)

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Glanville fritillary - Melitaea cinxia by Pieter-Jan Alles Via Flickr: Ardèche, France

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Glanville fritillary by hans24 http://500px.com/photo/257689859 #macro

[mike13mt]

Glanville fritillary (Melitaea cinxia) by ernstpluess

[anirobot]

Metapopulation - Wikipedia

Ilkka Hanski - Wikipedia

Glanville Fritillary (Melitaea cinxia) - Wikipedia

[petec9099]

A trip to Hutchinsons Bank

[iihbki3]

Picture of the day: Glanville fritillary (Melitaea cinxia) covered with water drops, in Wittenberge-Rühstädter Elbniederung nature reserve, Germany https://t.co/nPDQc0IlM5

[dxmedstudent]

Butterflies released in Finland contained parasitic wasps – with more wasps inside

[faveprettythings]

Glanville Fritillary (Melitaea cinxia)

Photo by Francesco Cassulo on flickr

[sarkos]

When caterpillars of a beautiful butterfly were introduced on to the tiny island of Sottunga in the Åland archipelago, scientists hoped to study how the emerging butterflies would disperse across the landscape. But researchers did not realise that their introduction of the Glanville fritillary (Melitaea cinxia) led to the emergence of three other species on to the Baltic Sea island, which sprang out of the butterfly like Russian dolls. Some of the caterpillars contained a parasitic wasp, Hyposoter horticola, which bursts from the caterpillar before it can pupate and become a butterfly. Living inside some of these small wasps was another even tinier, rarer parasite, a “hyperparasitoid” wasp known as Mesochorus cf. stigmaticus. It kills the parasitic wasp around the same time as the wasp kills the caterpillar, and emerges 10 days later from the caterpillar’s carcass. Also along for the ride was a bacterium that is carried by the female H. horticola wasps and transmitted to her offspring. By some unknown mechanism, Wolbachia pipientis increases the susceptibility of the parasitic wasp to being taken over by the tiny parasitic wasp M. stigmaticus, which can only live on the H. horticola wasp. Perhaps most surprisingly, given that small island populations are notoriously vulnerable to extinction, all four species are still surviving on the 27 sq km island 30 years after the original introduction.

Butterflies released in Finland contained parasitic wasps – with more wasps inside | Butterflies | The Guardian