At the Butterfly Café...

... you can fill up on purple. ADDED: Video shows just how many butterflies there were today:

"Tripoli Zoo: Libyan Lions Left Behind."

A HuffPo headline suggests the notion of a Rapture for animals. If there were a Rapture for animals, which animals would be left behind? I...

Two.

( Enlarge .) One.

Butterfly.

It's not a hummingbird.

At the botanical garden today, 2 women were staring at a little beastie that was going at the butterfly bush. It was not a butterfly. (Enlar...

"you know i have the transmigrated soul of a composer" writes our favorite insect, blogging cockroach.

Yesterday's last post , with its showy outdoor insects -- bee and butterfly -- lured the cowering, timorous bug from the shadows. It...

"I’m totally amazed that my art is selling while banks are falling."

"I guess it means that people would rather put their money into butterflies than banks — seems like a better world today to me." £...

Robert Drew's great documentary "Primary" -- about JFK and Hubert Humphrey in the Wisconsin Primary -- free, tonight, at Cinematheque.

New students, old residents, you should know about Cinematheque . Drop by tonight at Vilas Hall at 7:30 for this fine 60 minute film. And m...

An atypical day.

Thanks to everyone who wrote in the comments today and helped keep this thing alive. I was up before 5 a.m. to drive 88 miles to the Brown D...

No more memoir blogging, but...

No more butterflies.

Butterfly wings that are "identical in design to the LED."

BBC reports: This slab of hollow air cylinders in the wing scales is essentially mother nature's version of a 2D photonic crystal. Like...

Butterflies are territorial.

A tiger swallowtail has been patrolling the mid-tree level of my backyard for weeks.