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that their remote past is as discontinuous with their present selves, as lacking in any conscious likeness to their mature personality, as the self of a butterfly may be imagined discontinuous with that of the caterpillar it once was.
Each illustration features an animal from the animal kingdom ( A is for alligator, B is for butterfly, etc.
Amongst these is Psyche, with a butterfly, which is placed on the left hand, and held by the wings with the right.
In chaos theory, the butterfly effect is the sensitive dependence on initial conditions, where a small change at one place in a deterministic nonlinear system can result in large differences to a later state.
The name of the effect, coined by Edward Lorenz, is derived from the theoretical example of a hurricane's formation being contingent on whether or not a distant butterfly had flapped its wings several weeks before.
Although the butterfly effect may appear to be an esoteric and unlikely behavior, it is exhibited by very simple systems: for example, a ball placed at the crest of a hill may roll into any of several valleys depending on, among other things, slight differences in initial position.
The butterfly effect is a common trope in fiction when presenting scenarios involving time travel and with hypotheses where one storyline diverges at the moment of a seemingly minor event resulting in two significantly different outcomes.
A butterfly backplane is typically constructed to maximize the number of slots for the least vertical height.
An example is Andrew Lang's fairy tale Princess Nobody ( 1884 ), illustrated by Richard Doyle, where fairies are tiny people with butterfly wings, whereas elves are tiny people with red stocking caps.
The Polygalaceae is fairly well researched among plant families, in part due to the large diversity of the genus Polygala, and also due to members of the family, like the Fabaceae, being food plants for various Lepidoptera ( butterfly and moth ) species.
The island is also home the Monarch butterfly ( Danaus plexippus ) and its close African relative Danaus chrysippus.
Saline is infused under pressure into the corpus cavernosum with a butterfly needle, and the flow rate needed to maintain an erection indicates the degree of venous leakage.
The butterfly kick is done by doing a large circular motion with both feet in succession, making the combatant airborne.
First practiced in Chinese martial arts, the butterfly kick, or " xuan zi ", is widely viewed as ineffective for actual combat.
* Balisong: A folding knife also known as a " butterfly knife " or " batangas ", with two handles counter-rotating around the tang such that, when closed, the blade is hidden within the handles.
This could be the result of koi being bred from a mix of East Asian and Western Eurasian carp varieties, or being bred exclusively from East Asian varieties and being subsequently hybridized with Western Eurasian varieties ( the butterfly koi is one known product of such a cross ).
If this color change is advantageous, the chance of this butterfly surviving and producing its own offspring are a little better, and over time the number of butterflies with this mutation may form a larger percentage of the population.
Arms races are not necessarily induced by man ; a well-documented example involves the spread of a gene in the butterfly Hypolimnas bolina suppressing male-killing activity by Wolbachia bacteria parasites on the island of Samoa, where the spread of the gene is known to have occurred over a period of just five years
The butterfly Mon ( badge ) | mon of the Taira is called Ageha-cho ( 揚羽蝶 ) in Japanese
The county is home to several endangered species including the San Francisco garter snake, the Mission blue butterfly and the San Bruno elfin butterfly, all of which are endemic to San Mateo County.
* August – The Camberwell Beauty butterfly is named after specimens found at Camberwell in London.
The butterfly loop, also known as lineman's loop, butterfly knot, alpine butterfly knot and lineman's rider, is a knot used to form a fixed loop in the middle of a rope.

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In general, the Painted Lady is a large butterfly ( wing span ) identified by the black and white corners of its mainly deep orange, black-spotted wings.
They seek food independently and prey mainly on insects, like butterfly caterpillars and pupae ( there is a specialised butterfly species whose caterpillars develop only on Vaccinium myrtillus ), ants, myriapodae, ground beetles and the like.
Grüner's Orange Tip ( Anthocharis gruneri ) is a butterfly found mainly in Turkey, Transcaucasian Mountains, Asia Minor and the Armenian highlands.
The Southwestern Orangetip ( Anthocharis thoosa ) is a butterfly which has a range of mainly the USA Rocky Mountains down into Mexico.
Anthocharis bambusarum is a butterfly which has a range of mainly in China and Eastern Asia.
The Anthocharis bieti is a butterfly which has a range such that it is mainly confined to China.
The term gynandromorph, from Greek " gyne " female and " andro " male, is mainly used in the field of Lepidopterology ( butterfly / moth study ) or entomology ( all insects ).
A reference to the butterfly effect, it features mainly in Interesting Times.

butterfly and day-flying
File: Unid moth. jpg | Tetragonus sp., a day-flying Callidulid moth holds its wings like a butterfly but lacks the knobbed antennae

butterfly and insect
In lepidopteran ( butterfly and moth ) species, scales are plates on the surface of the insect wing, and provide coloration.
Nowadays, fairies are often depicted with ordinary insect wings or butterfly wings.
A moth is an insect related to the butterfly, both being of the order Lepidoptera.
When the external form undergoes the greatest change, as from an aquatic insect to a flying gnat, a caterpillar to a crysalis, a crysalis to a butterfly, or a tadpole to a frog, there is nothing new in the organization ; all the parts of the gnat, the butterfly, and the frog, having really existed, though not appearing to the common observer in the forms in which they are first seen.
Bacillus thuringiensis is the most widely applied species of bacteria used for biological control, with at least four sub-species used to control Lepidopteran ( moth, butterfly ), Coleopteran ( beetle ) and Dipteran ( true flies ) insect pests.
He wanted to dispel the seventeenth-century notion of metamorphosis — the idea that different life stages of an insect ( e. g. caterpillar and butterfly ) represent different individuals or a sudden change from one type of animal to another.
Research showed interesting patterns in insect / butterfly road kills in relation to the vehicle density.
After its change from caterpillar to butterfly, the insect emerges from its chrysalis and leaves the ant nest to find a mate.
The Eastern Tiger Swallowtail is the state butterfly of Alabama, Delaware, Georgia, and South Carolina, and is the state insect of Virginia.
The Eastern Tiger Swallowtail is the state insect of Virginia and the state butterfly of Georgia, Delaware, and South Carolina.
Clarke answered an advert in an insect magazine for swallowtail butterfly pupae that had been placed by Philip Sheppard.
Cyril Clarke answered an advert in an insect magazine for swallowtail butterfly pupa that had been placed by Sheppard.
The California dogface butterfly has been the state insect of the U. S. state of California since 1972.
California was the first state to choose a state insectand thus, to choose a butterfly — though most of the other states have now followed, and many even have both a state insect and state butterfly.
A butterfly is a flying insect.
The collections were exhibited in cases with glass covers grouped in such a way that a large and colourful insect, a butterfly or a beetle was placed in the centre and different species were arranged around it radially, symmetrically where possible.
Gwendoline, who has come to China to capture the butterfly that eluded her father, who'd staked his professional reputation as a scientist on obtaining the insect, offers Willard $ 2000 to take her and Beth with him to the land of the Yik-Yak tribe, in which the butterfly may be found.
There are several serpentariums, insect museums, butterfly gardens and other zoological attractions in the area.
Thymus species are used as food plants by the larvae of some Lepidoptera ( butterfly and moth ) insect species, including Chionodes distinctella and the Coleophora case-bearers C. lixella, C. niveicostella, C. serpylletorum and C. struella ( the latter three feed exclusively on Thymus ).

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