How To Use Fritillary In A Sentence
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I counted half a dozen chrysalises outside this morning, and those caterpillars may take months to complete the metamorphosis because of the cold weather, but because of the warm, cozy conditions this one's found, I expect it to emerge as a beautiful Gulf fritillary butterfly sometime within the next two weeks.
Archive 2009-12-01
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There are now believed to be only 12 places in the country where the fritillary thrives, and Cricklade North Meadow has the highest proportion of the blooms.
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This year we have a white fritillary as well as the more usual purple ones.
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The reserve is also home to a large number of butterfly species including green hairsteak, dingy skipper and dark green fritillary.
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The marsh fritillary was once common across Britain and Europe, but has been in sharp decline over the past century because of loss of habitat.
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For example, wild chamomile is now lost from 23 of the counties where it grew wild, and the native fritillary is now found in an area only one quarter of its previous size.
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In 1990, Pellmyr and his colleagues reported that fritillary butterflies seek the scent of only one form, probably because of its irresistible methyl anthranilate and isoeugenol.
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The corncrake and marsh fritillary have been the victims of intensive agriculture as ploughing and pesticides destroy habitat and insects.
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A silver-washed fritillary – all tawny orange with black cryptic wing texts and flashes of mother-of-pearl – flew in and was immediately mobbed by ringlet and meadow-brown butterflies.
Country diary: Wenlock Edge
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Variegated fritillary and common buckeye butterflies that the researchers captured, marked, and released in the central patch proved two to four times as likely to show up in connected patches as in unconnected ones.
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A silver-washed fritillary – all tawny orange with black cryptic wing texts and flashes of mother-of-pearl – flew in and was immediately mobbed by ringlet and meadow-brown butterflies.
Country diary: Wenlock Edge
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day before dinner, he forgot his promise to himself in the hot pool and ate the larvae of a fritillary butterfly.
THE BROKEN GOD
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Variegated fritillary and common buckeye butterflies that the researchers captured, marked, and released in the central patch proved two to four times as likely to show up in connected patches as in unconnected ones.
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To investigate this question, I raised my own Gulf fritillary and pipe-vine swallowtail butterflies so that I could study individuals that had never been exposed to flowers or colors.
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He had eaten the young of the fritillary a thousand times during his boyhood; they tasted delicious, juicy and sweet, just as they should.
THE BROKEN GOD
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The flowers, inhabited by a wild passion, drew the fritillary back repeatedly as if all its strength and beauty were trapped in their orbit.
Country diary: Wenlock Edge
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The corncrake and marsh fritillary have been the victims of intensive agriculture as ploughing and pesticides destroy habitat and insects.
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More than 1,500 hand-reared heath fritillary butterflies have been reintroduced into their former natural habitat.
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Conservationists in Kerry have threatened High Court action to stop the development of constructed wetlands in the park, which is a breeding area for the marsh fritillary, a protected butterfly species.
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Here, the dancers adorn their sleeves with purple and yellow ribbons, the colours of a rare local flower, the snake's head fritillary.
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The graceful but now critically endangered high brown fritillary and the Lulworth skipper, which is confined to the Dorset coastline and has suffered a 93% decline in number since 2000, continued to disappear from the countryside.
Butterfly revival could be threatened by cuts, warns charity
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After four years of negotiations, an environmental management agreement for Trerhos Common in Hayscastle - home to six rare plants and the marsh fritillary butterfly - has been secured.
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Match the artsy underwing of the pearl-bordered fritillary with the breathtaking views from the Morecambe Bay Limestones, just below the Lake District.
Are butterflies the UK's most beautiful endangered species? | Dan Flenley
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Without bogs we would lose astonishing plants like sundews, sphagnum mosses and cotton grass; beautiful insects like marsh fritillary butterflies; and spectacular birds like hen harriers and short-eared owls.
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Without bogs we would lose astonishing plants like sundews, sphagnum mosses and cotton grass; beautiful insects like marsh fritillary butterflies; and spectacular birds like hen harriers and short-eared owls.
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Conclusion:Retention time and affection time of aconite alkaloids after used with thunberg fritillary bulb omni-alkaloids were longer than these before matching.
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The marsh fritillary is an extremely variable butterfly, with 34 subspecies described from Europe alone.
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It was a silver-washed fritillary, the largest and most impressive of all the British fritillaries and one that has bucked the dismal trend and expanded its range after years of contraction.
Country diary: Cosford Hall, Suffolk
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A silver-washed fritillary butterfly dipped between the tufts of grass to find the violet leaves on which she lays her eggs.
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The main cause for the decline of the regal fritillary is the loss of tallgrass prairie habitat.
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The site is also an important home for fritillary butterfly, including the rare and declining high brown and pearl-bordered fritillaries.
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I would ram this point home by finding a suitably similar image of mine, and comparing and contrasting them, but regrettably I do not have a picture of a fritillary.
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• Wood white: up 600% since 2009, following major decline• Marsh fritillary: up 134%, after major decline• Common blue: up 146%• Brown argus: up 85%• Silver-spotted skipper: up 78%• Lulworth skipper: down 40%, worst ever year since records began• Meadow brown: down 20%, worst ever year• Essex skipper: down 33%, second worst year in scheme• Small skipper: down 17%• Wall brown: down 20%It was an ordinary school playing field until the diggers moved in.
Butterfly revival could be threatened by cuts, warns charity
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Newly released figures from the charity Butterfly Conservation show that the endangered wood white increased in number by 600% in Britain last summer after a major decline, while the rare marsh fritillary increased by 134% and the silver-spotted skipper, once on the brink of extinction, rallied with a 78% rise.
Butterfly revival could be threatened by cuts, warns charity
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Butterflies, such as the Marsh fritillary and Chalkhill blue, and wildflowers, such as Deptford pink and Meadow clary, depend on these grasslands and are also in decline.
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The corncrake and marsh fritillary have been the victims of intensive agriculture as ploughing and pesticides destroy habitat and insects.
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On to Oxfordshire, where it turns out that some of my in-laws own one of the last fritillary meadows in the country; and the fritillaries are in full flower!
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It was obvious he was dreaming: his eyelids fluttered like the wings of a fritillary, and he moved his cracked, bleeding lips silently.
THE BROKEN GOD
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Match the artsy underwing of the pearl-bordered fritillary with the breathtaking views from the Morecambe Bay Limestones, just below the Lake District.
Are butterflies the UK's most beautiful endangered species? | Dan Flenley
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This has had a positive effect on other woodland wildlife, with butterflies such as the silver-washed fritillary thriving in the sunny, open rides between the stands of trees.
Birdwatch: Pheasant
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En route she encounters buzzards, a peregrine and high brown fritillary butterflies, otters and kingfishers.
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Almost all have been managed for hunting or timber during most of their history, but the majority are now nature reserves and home to wildlife such as the pearl-bordered fritillary butterfly and barbastelle bat, as well as a rich variety of woodland plants.
Campaigners not out of the woods in bid to save forests
