Yet, as I spend roughly half the year playing music outside of Brooklyn it occurs to me that while devotees of creative music / improvisation / etc might have a surface-level notion about this, the true extent of this only reveals itself after one spends significant time spent here, and even then still only to a fractional extent.

The last Monk mood is his underappreciated solemnity, and it is reflected here during Novoa’s shadow casting with the Rhodes keyboard on “No Direction” as Attias draws the curtains with his eerie reed. Spermatophores are nuptial gifts which serve different functions, one of which is to provide chemicals ( cyanogens) that protect the mother and future offspring from predators. This happens because as larvae damage the plant upon eating it, green-leaf volatiles, six carbon alcohols, aldehydes, and acetates, are released. The summer generation is larger, bolder in color and has longer tails than the early spring one and this beauty looked fresh.

I let leaves lie in the winter, and I try to leave bare patches of soil for ground nesting insects such as bees.

H. charithonia is found in South America, Central America, the West Indies, Mexico, south Texas and peninsular Florida.During the process, females remain relatively still, except for spreading their wings and discharging meconium. On her striking new album, pianist-composer Eva Novoa, aided and abetted by quartet members (Michaël Attias on alto saxophone, Max Johnson on bass and Jeff Davis on drums), offers up further evidence of the current surge of creative energy coming out of Brooklyn. Their bold pattern of black and white stripes, long tails, and the bright red spots near the base of their hind wings never fail to delight me when I spy one flitting through the summer air.

In most species of butterflies, pheromones play a role in courtship and mate recognition, [23] and can play a role in deterring mates. As I keep repeating, if only two out of the dozens of eggs laid make it to adulthood, then their parents have been replaced and they maintain a stable population.Perhaps because of their spikey appearance, zebra longwing caterpillars hang out in the open, in large numbers. Lucid, subconscious, introverted, and taking B from Montreal to Los Angeles, Butterflies, Zebras, Moonbeams is an intimate perspective on the life of making music. Ecology, Behavior and Binomics: Herbivore Handling of a Plant's Trichome: The Case of Heliconius charithonia (L. We see up years and we see down years, but we can’t get hung up on how many caterpillars we see make it or not make it in a given year. One reference said that these swallowtails have a shorter proboscis than most, and are therefore more often seen on small flowers than are other species of swallowtails.