Download or read book Contributions to the Understanding of Tallgrass Prairie dependent Butterflies and Moths Lepidoptera and Their Biogeography in the United States written by and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Midwestern Native Garden written by Charlotte Adelman and published by Ohio University Press. This book was released on 2011-09-21 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Midwestern gardeners and landscapers are becoming increasingly attracted to noninvasive regional native wildflowers and plants over popular nonnative species. The Midwestern Native Garden offers viable alternatives to both amateurs and professionals, whether they are considering adding a few native plants or intending to go native all the way. Native plants improve air and water quality, reduce use of pesticides, and provide vital food and reproductive sites to birds and butterflies, that nonnative plants cannot offer, helping bring back a healthy ecosystem. The authors provide a comprehensive selection of native alternatives that look similar or even identical to a range of nonnative ornamentals. These are native plants that are suitable for all garden styles, bloom during the same season, and have the same cultivation requirements as their nonnative counterparts. Plant entries are accompanied by nature notes setting out the specific birds and butterflies the native plants attract. The Midwestern Native Garden will be a welcome guide to gardeners whose styles range from formal to naturalistic but who want to create an authentic sense of place, with regional natives. The beauty, hardiness, and easy maintenance of native Midwestern plants will soon make them the new favorites.
Download or read book Insects Fire and Conservation written by Tim R. New and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-09-03 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A global synthesis of the impacts of wildfires and controlled burning on insects, bringing together much hitherto scattered information to provide a guide to improved conservation management practice. The great variety of responses by insect species and assemblages demonstrates the often subtle balance between fire being a severe threat and a vital management component. Examples from many parts of the world and from diverse biotopes and production systems display the increasingly detailed appreciation of fire impacts on insects in terrestrial and freshwater environments and the ways in which prescribed burning may be tailored to reduce harmful ecological impacts and incorporated into protocols for threatened species and wider insect conservation benefits.
Download or read book Olethreutine Moths of the Midwestern United States written by Todd M. Gilligan and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Butterflies Tallgrass Prairie and Green Roofs written by Pamela Blackmore and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As pollinators continue to decrease across the United States, it is becoming more important to understand how this trend can be reversed. Cities, which have typically eliminated and fragmented pollinator habitat, may be able to utilize rooftops for the benefit of pollinators. The Memorial Stadium green roofs at Kansas State University are rooftops previously used as stadium seating, portions of which have recently been converted to native prairie vegetation. I evaluated the effectiveness of these green roofs as pollinator habitat in an urban context by comparing butterfly communities of the green roofs to those in an urban native prairie at Warner Park in Manhattan, Kansas, and a protected tallgrass prairie at the Konza Prairie Biological Station, approximately 10 km south of Manhattan, Kansas. I assessed the influence of on-site vegetation composition on butterfly species richness, distribution, behavior, and abundance. I employed a modified Pollard walk, plant composition sampling, and mapping of spatial distribution of vegetation used by individual butterflies with a GPS unit. Initial findings suggest that green roofs can provide urban habitat for butterflies. Indeed, butterfly abundance and mean species richness were greater at the Memorial Stadium than at either native prairie. However, while the green roofs support many species of butterflies, tallgrass prairie specialist species that were seen in the native prairie sites, such as the regal fritillary, were not observed using the green roofs. Butterfly behavior also varied between sites: butterflies using the stadium were predominately foraging, whereas butterflies at native prairie sites were flying through and not interacting with the plants. While plant species interactions with butterflies and links per species were greatest at Memorial Stadium, nestedness was lowest at this site. This study not only suggests that green roofs can compensate for lost pollinator habitat in urban areas, but by examining the effects of vegetation composition and structure as well as local land cover on butterfly abundance and behavior, it has important implications for the design and management of green roofs as urban butterfly habitat.
Download or read book As Nature Shows Them written by Sherman Foote Denton and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Noctuidae Europaeae written by Michael Fibiger and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Butterflies of the Eastern United States and Canada written by Samuel Hubbard Scudder and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 1032 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Hawk Moths of North America written by James P. Tuttle and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Grassland Butterfly Responses to Prairie Restoration written by Jennifer Amy Vogel and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fire and grazing are common methods used for prairie restoration and conservation. However, effects of restoration on grassland invertebrates have been evaluated with mixed results. We examined the effects of prairie restoration through fire and grazing and the relative contributions of the direct and indirect effects of time since fire on the grassland butterfly community of the Loess Hills of Iowa, USA. Both total and habitat-specialist (prairie-dependent) butterfly abundance were highest on prairies that were managed with grazing and burning, and lowest on those that were only burned. Butterfly species richness did not differ among any of the management types. Responses of individual butterfly species to management practices were variable. In the best predictive models, both habitat-specialist and total butterfly abundance were negatively associated with the percent cover of bare ground, total butterfly abundance was positively associated with the percent cover of forbs, and habitat-generalist butterfly abundance was positively associated with floral resource availability. Areas managed with fire, grazing, or a fire/grazing combination all maintained equally species rich, yet compositionally different, butterfly communities. Butterfly abundance increased as time since burn increased. The percent cover of warm season grasses and bare ground decreased while the cover of cool season grasses, forbs, and litter depth increased with time since burn. We used path analysis to examine direct and indirect effects of burning. For habitat-specialist species abundance path models, the total indirect effects of time since burn through floral resources, warm season grass cover, or bare ground were stronger relative to the direct effect of time since burn. The indirect pathway through bare ground had higher relative strength than other indirect paths in the models for habitat-specialist species. For the habitat-generalist species path models, the direct effect of time since burn was stronger relative to the indirect effects. Because of this variation in butterfly species responses to different management practices, we do not recommend a single type of management that would benefit all species or even all species within habitat-specialist or habitat-generalist habitat guilds. Our data illustrate the profound effects, both direct and indirect, of fire on grassland butterfly abundance.
Download or read book Conservation of Tallgrass Prairie Butterfly Species in a Highly Fragmented Landscape written by Scott Joseph Mahady and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The consequences of habitat fragmentation on communities have been extensively studied. However, few studies on habitat fragmentation have addressed the role landscape context plays in determining local species assemblages. Our study examines how landscape composition at the regional scale effects prairie butterfly communities in 24 Midwest native tallgrass prairie remnants located in four distinct geographical regions. These regions differed in their degree of historical habitat heterogeneity and their current predominant land use (matrix habitat). The current land use categories, or matrix type, included: row crop agriculture, pasture for cattle grazing, woodland, and urban development. Historically, the regions varied from continuous tallgrass prairie ecosystem to the historically isolated and smaller 'goat prairies' located within the Driftless area in Northeast Iowa and Southwest Wisconsin. Area accounted for a significant amount of the variation in species richness only in the two historically fragmented regions.
Download or read book American Butterflies and Moths written by Cecile Hulse Matschat and published by Hassell Street Press. This book was released on 2021-09-09 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Download or read book Native Host Plants for Texas Butterflies written by Jim Weber and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2018-08-01 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While many growers focus on attracting adult butterflies to their gardens, fewer know about the plants that caterpillars need to survive. Native host plants—wildflowers, trees, shrubs, vines, grasses, and sedges—not only provide a site for the butterfly to lay its eggs, they also provide a ready food source for the emerging caterpillar. Think of these plants as the nurseries of the garden. This user-friendly, heavily illustrated field guide describes 101 native larval host plants in Texas. Each species account includes descriptive information on each plant, a distribution map, and photos of both the caterpillars and adult butterflies who frequent those plants. An adult butterfly may nectar on a wide variety of flowers, but caterpillars are much more restricted in their food sources. Some feed on only a limited number of plant species, so female butterflies seek out these specific plants to lay their eggs. For example, the host plants for Monarch caterpillars are various species of milkweed. Often, these plants are not the same as the ones the adult butterfly will later use for nectar. Learning more about the plants caterpillars need is crucial for butterfly conservation. Butterflies’ dependency on specific caterpillar host plants is one of the key factors restricting their range and distribution. Armed with this knowledge, readers can also hone their ability to find specific species of breeding butterflies in nature. This is a handy guide whether you are in the field searching for butterflies or on the hunt for butterfly-friendly options at your local plant sale.
Download or read book As Nature Shows Them Moths and Butterflies of the United States East of the Rocky Mountains With Over 400 Photographic Illustrations in T written by Sherman Foote Denton and published by Sagwan Press. This book was released on 2018-02-08 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Download or read book AS NATURE SHOWS THEM written by Sherman F. (Sherman Foote) 1856 Denton and published by . This book was released on 2016-08-24 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Effects of Ecological Management on Tallgrass Prairie Butterflies and Their Nectar Source written by Raymond Andrew Moranz and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book AS NATURE SHOWS THEM written by Sherman F. (Sherman Foote) 1856 Denton and published by Wentworth Press. This book was released on 2016-08-24 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.