A New Start

Long forgotten, I might start a blog again. Spring will be along soon. Today is Little Bitty Baby's Birthday. She's 21. I found this blog (again) while looking for the blog that has her with a shirtless monkeyman. His blog disappeared.

Crinums

Butterflies

Swallowtails: Common trait is extensions at the rear end of the wings, which makes them look like swallows. The Oregon Swallowtail is the state insect of Oregon; the eastern tiger swallowtail is the state insect of Virginia and the state butterfly of Georgia, Delaware, and South Carolina. The palamedes swallowtail is found in the coastal plains of the southeastern states from Virginia to Louisiana
Zebra are the official state butterfly of Tennessee Zebra swallowtail butterfly (Eurytides marcellus How great the difficulty now is of studying and satisfactorily deciding on species among that multitude of every kind of polyps, radiarians, worms, and especially insects, such as butterflies, Phalaena, Noctua, Tinea, flies, Ichneumon, Curculio, Cerambix, chafers, rose-chafers, etc.! These genera alone possess so many species which merge indefinably into one another. --Jean-Baptiste Pierre Antoine de Monet, Chevalier de Lamarck Fritz Müller in 1879 showed not only that each member of a pair of unpalatable species could benefit from mimicry, but also that the ratio of advantages for mimicry was greatly in favour of the rarer species. -- J. Mallet