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Citizen scientists are people — young or old — who help collect data for research projects. They usually aren't professional scientists, or if they are, not in the field of the project. ... As a bonus, citizen science often gets kids and adults more excited about science
A user-friendly web site and database that shares butterfly and moth species information with the public via dynamic maps, checklists, and species pages.
Butterflies visit your garden looking for nectar and other food sources. Butterflies love to spend their daytime in places that have lots of nectar and receive plenty of sunlight from mid-morning to mid-afternoon. Fully grown-up butterflies avoid feeding in the shade.
The size of the habitat does not matter, as long as the five requirements—food, water, cover, places to raise young, and sustainable gardening—are included in the habitat garden.
Now is the time of year milkweeds reveal themselves among the dry grasses and rocks. The white fluff stands out in the landscape. The pollinated milkweed seeds are carried aloft by the white milkweed fluff. If you see milkweed you can participate in an important citizen science project contributing to mapping our local milkweed resources.
You can also map Monarch sightings there as well. Click on the button below.
Here are 10 fascinating facts about butterflies.
- Butterfly wings are transparent.
- Butterflies taste with their feet.
- Butterflies live on an all-liquid diet.
- A butterfly must assemble its proboscis as soon as it emerges from the chrysalis.
- Butterflies drink from mud puddles.
- Butterflies can't fly if they're cold.
- Butterflies live just a few weeks, usually.
- Butterflies are nearsighted, but they can see and discriminate a lot of colors.
- Butterflies employ all kinds of tricks to keep from being eaten.
- A group of Butterflies is called a flutter.