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Butterfly sighting causes stir in Texas (tiny green butterfly not seen in US in more than 70 years)
AP on Yahoo ^ | 10/12/07 | AP

Posted on 10/12/2007 9:13:25 PM PDT by NormsRevenge

FALCON HEIGHTS, Texas - A tiny green butterfly not seen in the United States in more than 70 years likes the new butterfly garden at Falcon State Park, experts said.

Berry Nall of Falcon Heights took a photograph of his find on Monday, posted it on his Web site and asked members of an online mailing list to help him identify it.

"I tried to get as many pictures as I could, but it took off," Nall said.

The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department informed him that he had taken a picture of a telea hairstreak butterfly.

"I knew something was going on when I couldn't find it (in any books)," he said.

Mike Quinn, an invertebrate biologist with Texas Parks and Wildlife's wildlife diversity program, said he immediately started reviewing his books to verify the insect was a telea hairstreak after he saw the posting.

"As soon as I saw the photo, my jaw dropped. It was fresh as a daisy and crisp," he said.

Avery Freeman first captured a telea hairstreak in Laredo in 1935, Quinn said. The specimen is at the American Museum of Natural History in New York.

Quinn said two other types of green hairstreak butterflies, the xami and the silver-banded, can be spotted in the Rio Grande Valley and feed off the same plants as the telea hairstreak.

A telea hairstreak has tiny filaments on the lower back sides of the wings. It also has false antennae, also on the backs of the wings, that serve to dupe predators, he said.

David Dauphin of Mission said he and his wife, Jan, saw the green butterfly at the state park on Tuesday and took pictures of it. They say they saw other types of hairstreaks later in the week.

Fran Bartle, Falcon State Park's volunteer park naturalist, said the sighting has created a stir and people are coming to the park to look for it.

Jeffrey Glassberg, president of the North American Butterfly Association, said people could have overlooked the telea hairstreak butterflies before because they are so tiny.

"Only recently have there been knowledgable people looking for butterflies," he said. "When you have nobody looking, you don't see anything."

Quinn and the butterfly watchers believe the butterflies hatched in the Valley rather than migrated here.

"There might already be an established community at Falcon State Park," he said.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Miscellaneous; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: butterfly; sighting; texas
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To: endthematrix

That was funny, thanks. I used that stuff once when I had trouble sleeping. It leaves an awful taste in your mouth. So bad it took days to get rid of it. I would rather be awake then take that cr@p.


21 posted on 10/12/2007 10:28:36 PM PDT by pandoraou812 ( Its NOT for the good of the children! Its BS along with bending over for Muslims)
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To: PAR35

No. It is a rightful occupant that was forcefully pushed out of its home by racist cold fronts from the Great White North. Now that pasty faced xenophobe Algore wants to chase it back out just because it came back looking for a better two week life.


22 posted on 10/12/2007 10:33:06 PM PDT by TigersEye (Hillary can tap Hsus but she can't tuna fish.)
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To: NormsRevenge
Must be due to global warming!
23 posted on 10/12/2007 10:34:26 PM PDT by It's me
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To: pandoraou812

I think you’re taking this butterfly thing a little too seriously. ;^)


24 posted on 10/12/2007 10:35:29 PM PDT by TigersEye (Hillary can tap Hsus but she can't tuna fish.)
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To: pandoraou812

The ads creep me out - the whole sucking of the soul while your sleeping thingy.


25 posted on 10/12/2007 10:36:32 PM PDT by endthematrix (He was shouting 'Allah!' but I didn't hear that. It just sounded like a lot of crap to me.)
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To: TigersEye

Thank you. You saved me five minutes of posting the same thing (less the one minute it took me to post this). O.K., I’m slow.


26 posted on 10/12/2007 10:39:13 PM PDT by tdscpa
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To: endthematrix; TigersEye

Yes they are creepy. Every time I see them I am reminded of my father chasing a bat (sort of like that video) when I was a child. He kept yelling cover your hair & swinging a broom to chase it out. We thought he had lost his mind until he finally got it. The stuff is really awful, trust me & never try it.


27 posted on 10/12/2007 10:40:40 PM PDT by pandoraou812 ( Its NOT for the good of the children! Its BS along with bending over for Muslims)
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To: TigersEye
I think you’re taking this butterfly thing a little too seriously..

Why because I want a new tattoo? I have them all over my back, whats one more? I don't have this one. EFG ~Pandy~

28 posted on 10/12/2007 10:42:53 PM PDT by pandoraou812 ( Its NOT for the good of the children! Its BS along with bending over for Muslims)
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To: pandoraou812

“Every time I see them I am reminded of my father chasing a bat (sort of like that video) when I was a child. He kept yelling cover your hair & swinging a broom to chase it out. We thought he had lost his mind until he finally got it”
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Mention bats and it makes me think of the hilarious scene in “The Big Chill.” I believe Kevin Kline did in the offending bat with a tennis racket in that one.


29 posted on 10/12/2007 10:58:29 PM PDT by sinanju
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To: pandoraou812
“I have them all over my back, whats one more?”

Every time I see someone with a lot of tattoos, I think “prison”. Sorry...

30 posted on 10/12/2007 10:59:35 PM PDT by babygene (Never look into the laser with your last good eye...)
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To: tdscpa

You’re welcome. I’ve spent literally minutes of my life pretending to be a geo-entomologist and I gladly stand on the front lines for all of us who want to see this butterfly have a better life. Algore is just an evil speciesist entophobe.


31 posted on 10/12/2007 11:02:26 PM PDT by TigersEye (Hillary can tap Hsus but she can't tuna fish.)
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To: endthematrix

I’m pretty sure the thing in the Lunesta commecial is supposed to be a Luna moth...


32 posted on 10/12/2007 11:10:21 PM PDT by B-Chan (Catholic. Monarchist. Texan. Any questions?)
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To: babygene

Thats ok. I cover them up when I don’t have a bathing suit on & I am very aware of what other people think. I really don’t care either. People who have a problem don’t know what I am thinking about them. I’ve never been to prison & doubt I ever will be. What do you think of the yuppie girls with the tiny diamonds in their noses? No, I don’t have any, I don’t like them. But I do like my back & I like butterflys. You would be really surprised at how many women have them too..You just don’t see them.


33 posted on 10/12/2007 11:11:01 PM PDT by pandoraou812 ( Its NOT for the good of the children! Its BS along with bending over for Muslims)
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To: NormsRevenge

bfl


34 posted on 10/12/2007 11:13:42 PM PDT by shield (A wise man's heart is at his RIGHT hand;but a fool's heart at his LEFT. Ecc 10:2)
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To: sinanju

lmao...I think a tennis racket would have worked way better then the broom did. I liked that movie too.


35 posted on 10/12/2007 11:20:24 PM PDT by pandoraou812 ( Its NOT for the good of the children! Its BS along with bending over for Muslims)
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To: babygene

I was just thinking BabyGene that you ought to not express your opinion about tattoos out loud to the men & woman of our military who have tattoos. You might get clobbered. I don’t think they would take kindly to you thinking they were in prison when they were off fighting. I hope I am not offending you ..just a word to the wise...~P~


36 posted on 10/12/2007 11:24:05 PM PDT by pandoraou812 ( Its NOT for the good of the children! Its BS along with bending over for Muslims)
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To: NormsRevenge


Beautiful aren't they?
37 posted on 10/12/2007 11:25:03 PM PDT by Liberty Valance (Keep a simple manner for a happy life :o)
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To: pandoraou812

Actually, my best female friend of 40 years has a tattoo of a butterfly on her ankle. Don’t know what made her do that, but she’s cool... (never been in prison either) She just got her master’s degree in economics.


38 posted on 10/12/2007 11:35:48 PM PDT by babygene (Never look into the laser with your last good eye...)
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To: babygene

Maybe she just wanted it..Some women do like to be a little on the wild side & just want a small one. Others like me just like them & want to be able to cover them up unless I want to show them. I wouldn’t ever place one where it can’t be covered. Just remember that its not what is on the outside but its what is on the inside that counts. I don’t care for the tattoos I see all over young adults. Nor do I think a woman ought to get them on their arms. What about the nose diamonds? You never answered ...


39 posted on 10/12/2007 11:40:54 PM PDT by pandoraou812 ( Its NOT for the good of the children! Its BS along with bending over for Muslims)
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To: pandoraou812

“What do you think of the yuppie girls with the tiny diamonds in their noses?”

I wonder what it’s like when they have a runny nose. id they think of that?

“you ought to not express your opinion about tattoos out loud to the men & woman of our military who have tattoos”

I spent 4 years in the Navy in the early sixties.

I spent 4 years in the Navy in the early sixties. I said “sorry” when I posted...


40 posted on 10/12/2007 11:44:34 PM PDT by babygene (Never look into the laser with your last good eye...)
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