By Peter Hall, Ottawa, Ontario My butterfly watching began in childhood when I chased a Cabbage White around a schoolyard in Ajax, Ontario, and caught it in my cap. Almost sixty years later I’m still at it. In the early days, I did some collecting, but did not keep any field notes as there was nobody to […]
This August’s eButterflyer of the month is one of our youngest contributors, 11 year old Colin Walton from Toronto, Ontario. Colin has been exposed to insects throughout his life by his mother, Antonia Guidotti, an entomologist at the Royal Ontario Museum and co-author of the new ROM Field Guide to the Butterflies of Ontario. As […]
eButterfly is very proud to be a part of the very first field guide on the butterflies of Ontario. It highlights the diversity of life by featuring 167 species of butterflies known to occur in Ontario. The ROM Field Guide to Butterflies of Ontario includes descriptive species accounts, flight season phenograms, and striking field photography […]
From Gary in Edmonton, Alberta. Today’s butterfly was a surprise for me in more ways than one. I ventured out to the little bog just south of Sherwood Park in hopes of finding a Giant Sulphur. No sulphurs, but on the edge of the bog a population of fresh Boloria freija aka Freija fritillarys! The second surprise was when I got home […]
This July’s eButterflyer of the month is Alberta’s own Gary Anweiler. Gary has been associated with the Strickland Entomological Museum for 25 years now and wrote many of the lepidoptera species pages for the Virtual Museum site and is co-author of the annotated list of the Lepidoptera of Alberta, Canada published in 2010 and updated in 2014. He […]
Les graines qui ont donné naissance à iPapillon ont été semées il y a plus de 60 ans, au moment où Jacques Larrivée a entrepris l’Étude des populations d’oiseaux du Québec (ÉPOQ). Ce programme de collecte de données sur les oiseaux représente aujourd’hui, avec plus de six millions d’observations, le plus long programme du genre jamais […]
Nous sommes heureux d’annoncer le lancement de iPapillon 3.0, la version mise à jour du puissant site Internet actuellement utilisé par des milliers de mordus des papillons. iPapillon est un site gratuit et convivial qui permet aux observateurs de papillons de toute l’Amérique du Nord d’entrer, d’archiver et de partager leurs observations n’importe où, n’importe […]
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