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Bryan's Posts About Butterflies
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Life Expressed in Flight, Poetry and Music
At long last, we here in the north will launch into spring next week. I’ll celebrate with two events. I hope to see you at either one — or both. You’ll encounter butterflies, birds, poetry and music.
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My Outtake Scene from Sex, Lies and Butterflies
My outtake from the PBS special Sex, Lies and Butterflies. It lives online.
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Getting the Blues
In the case of little blue butterflies known as azures, you are what you eat. Here’s my updated explainer on the blue sparkles of April.
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Your Best Field Guides Aren’t Apps
What’s true for movies is true for nature apps: the book is better. If you really want to learn nature, anything from bogs to bumblebees, get an actual book. Here’s my buyer’s guide.
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The Eclipse on the Wing of a Butterfly
The Heavens — and a total solar eclipse — reside on the wing of a butterfly.
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Fly or Die: Painted Ladies on the Move
Now passing you by is one of the planet’s great events — an epic migration like no other. Painted Lady, the world’s most widespread butterfly, is on the move. We’ve been seeing them bigtime here in New England the past few weeks.
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Insect Alerts
News from the frontiers of blue butterflies and burgundy damselflies.
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April Clickbait
If nature blogs were as rhapsodic as BuzzFeed and other clickbait, they might read something like these.
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Winter Butterflies
A butterfly slide show to join the odd winter warmth on the way here in New England.
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The Sunflower and the Butterfly: Together They Fall
When you kill a rare sunflower here in Vermont, you may also be killing a rare butterfly.
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Pale Beauties
Elegance now flies and blooms in shades of white. During my meanderings so far this month, I’ve found pale beauty where plants and insects converge.
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The Week in Flying Things
A state endangered butterfly. A globally vulnerable beetle. And a few common insects, including a lovely moth that resembles a pile of bird crap. So goes the week in flight.