Commercial butterfly breeding or captive butterfly breeding is the practice of breeding butterflies and moths in controlled environments to supply the...

overwintering populations with lower parasite loads. Owners of commercial butterfly-breeding operations claim that they take steps to control this parasite...

husbandry as an ecologically sound concept. Commercial butterfly breeding provides Lepidoptera stock to butterfly conservatories, educational exhibits, schools...

controversy in commercial butterfly breeding and discovers vast criminal operations involving the mass poaching and smuggling of butterflies. Kirkus Reviews...

the Cat Fancy (GCCF). International Butterfly Breeders Association (IBBA), an organization for commercial butterfly "farmers", as well as hobbyists, founded...

Monarch butterfly migration is the phenomenon, mainly across North America, where the subspecies Danaus plexippus plexippus migrates each autumn to overwintering...

bred hybrid cultivars with self-incompatibility and contributed to commercial breeding by developing valuable materials and educating students. The main...

and a breeding program for the blue butterfly. Honey, produced on the premises, is provided to the captive rearing program so the butterflies are able...

of a garden, and their tendency to attract butterflies and hummingbirds is seen as desirable. Commercially available seeds and plants are derived from...

a significant genetic erosion of the gene pool for future breeding. Therefore, commercial plant geneticists strive to breed "widely adapted" cultivars...

insects work in synergy and the weed rarely recovers. Breeding butterflies and moths, or butterfly gardening/rearing, has become an ecologically viable...

Asclepias syriaca, commonly called common milkweed, butterfly flower, silkweed, silky swallow-wort, and Virginia silkweed, is a species of flowering plant...

nectar from their flowers. A noteworthy feeder on milkweeds is the monarch butterfly, which uses and requires certain milkweeds as host plants for their larvae...

that it takes two or three generations for the monarch butterflies to reach the Canadian breeding grounds, while one much-longer-lived "supergeneration"...

The morpho butterflies comprise many species of Neotropical butterfly under the genus Morpho. This genus includes more than 29 accepted species and 147...

population of the monarch butterfly (Danaus plexippus). The population of western monarchs require very different breeding and overwintering habitat when...

The butterfly splitfin or butterfly goodeid (Ameca splendens) is a bony fish from the monotypic genus Ameca of the splitfin family (Goodeidae). It was...

the story, such as owls and snakes. The area is also home to Butterfly Paradise. Butterfly Paradise is a 600 m2 walk-through exhibit and was designed by...

developed through gamma radiation breeding, and through conventional selection breeding. International wheat breeding is led by the International Maize...

the animal, these boxes may be used for roosting, breeding, or both, or, as in the case with butterflies, hibernation. Wasps, bumble-bees, or other insects...

sweet commercial cultivar "Pervenec" (first sweet variety), which is included in the State Catalogue of selection achievements of Russia. Breeding of sweet...

relationship between Troides and Ornithoptera butterflies is well demonstrated by the fact that commercial breeders have produced numerous hybrids between...

littoral, pine forest, and mixed-oak woodland. The famed breeding habitat for the monarch butterfly, the Monarch Grove Sanctuary, is situated in the northwest...

species and many hybrids and cultivars. The most common strawberries grown commercially are cultivars of the garden strawberry, a hybrid known as Fragaria ×...

trees, global warming, reduction of milkweed to breeding places, and the drought in areas butterflies roost. However, the biggest limiting factors to...

mother. There is no defined breeding season, and females bear litters of up to seven pups. Used for its meat, the longtail butterfly ray is often caught by...

insects are the Norfolk hawker, a species of dragonfly, and the Swallowtail butterfly (Papilio machaon subsp. britannicus). Some of the broads are surrounded...

the most widely proposed method, although genome editing and selective breeding have also been considered. Similar techniques have been applied to certain...

where visual clues play an important role in the behavior, including breeding. The speckled or three-barred peacock bass (C. temensis) in particular...

pollinators, nourishing seeds for birds like the goldfinch, foliage for butterfly larvae, and down for the lining of birds' nests. A thistle is the floral...