butterfly display
Bug Season is about to start...
Mar/19/2010 Filed in: craft shows
Bug Under Glass will be at the SF Botanical Garden Society Book and Plant sale March 26-28th. We will have a small collection of new insect displays and butterfly displays at this fun spring event.
Info:
http://www.sfbotanicalgardensociety.org/sfbgs_course_template.cfm?s=5032
Bibliophiles and plant lovers, get ready! Friends of the San Francisco Public Library and the San Francisco Botanical Garden Society are pleased to announce the Plant and Book Sale, March 26-28, 2010.
Part book sale, part plant sale, the three day event begins on Friday, March 26th from 4:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m., continues Saturday, March 27th from 10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. and ends on Sunday, March 28th from 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. The sale is free and open to the public.
Held at County Fair Building in Golden Gate Park, the Plant and Book Sale boasts new and used books from both Friends of the SFPL and the Helen Crocker Russell Library of Horticulture at the Botanical Garden and plants for Bay Area gardens suitable for any garden and gardening level.
The Plant and Book Sale features books in all categories, with emphasis on science, gardening, nature and Californiana. The sale also features DVDs, CDs, books on tape, cassette tapes, vinyl, VHS and other forms of media.
Info:
http://www.sfbotanicalgardensociety.org/sfbgs_course_template.cfm?s=5032
Bibliophiles and plant lovers, get ready! Friends of the San Francisco Public Library and the San Francisco Botanical Garden Society are pleased to announce the Plant and Book Sale, March 26-28, 2010.
Part book sale, part plant sale, the three day event begins on Friday, March 26th from 4:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m., continues Saturday, March 27th from 10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. and ends on Sunday, March 28th from 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. The sale is free and open to the public.
Held at County Fair Building in Golden Gate Park, the Plant and Book Sale boasts new and used books from both Friends of the SFPL and the Helen Crocker Russell Library of Horticulture at the Botanical Garden and plants for Bay Area gardens suitable for any garden and gardening level.
The Plant and Book Sale features books in all categories, with emphasis on science, gardening, nature and Californiana. The sale also features DVDs, CDs, books on tape, cassette tapes, vinyl, VHS and other forms of media.
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Bazaar Bizarre Craft Show this coming weekend!
Dec/07/2009 Filed in: events | craft shows
This coming weekend (December 12th & 13th) in San Francisco is my FAVORITE craft show of the year – the Bazaar Bizarre. This is a very fun & well put together show with a large group of talented crafters. If you need a unique hand-made holiday gift, this is the place to go. I will be there selling my hand-made insect displays and will also have a few of my limited edition insect dioramas for sale – come early while supplies last.
This show is organized by the people at Urban Fauna Studios, the best damn yarn store in the city.
Monarch Butterflies
Nov/28/2009 Filed in: insect facts
Monarch butterflies are probably the best-known species of butterfly in North America. They are famous for their long migrations south before the northern winter frosts kill their eggs and adults. These migrations are one of the most amazing in nature and individuals can travel up to 2,000 miles from home. In North America, the migration patterns differ depending on where the butterfly lives. Monarchs living in the western part of the US migrate to a small number of sites scattered along the coast of California. One of these sites is close to where I live in San Francisco, called Pacific Grove. The most famous travelers come from the eastern US where an estimated 100 million butterflies head south to Michoacan in central Mexico.
These journeys are very tough on the Monarch and most of them do not make it the whole way. However, many stop to breed along the way and the butterflies that make the reverse migration in spring are often five generations removed from those that originally migrated in autumn. Along these migrations, Monarchs lay eggs on milkweed, which is the only plant their caterpillars will eat. It is from this milkweed diet that the butterfly gets its toxic defense. Milkweed contains poisonous cardiac glycosides that the Monarch sequesters when the caterpillar eats the plant. These glycosides cause severe vomiting in most animals that eats either a monarch caterpillar or the adult butterfly.
It is fun to learn about nature and Bug Under Glass creates a museum quality Monarch Butterfly display from farm-raised butterflies. Art that has a story is much more fun!
These journeys are very tough on the Monarch and most of them do not make it the whole way. However, many stop to breed along the way and the butterflies that make the reverse migration in spring are often five generations removed from those that originally migrated in autumn. Along these migrations, Monarchs lay eggs on milkweed, which is the only plant their caterpillars will eat. It is from this milkweed diet that the butterfly gets its toxic defense. Milkweed contains poisonous cardiac glycosides that the Monarch sequesters when the caterpillar eats the plant. These glycosides cause severe vomiting in most animals that eats either a monarch caterpillar or the adult butterfly.
It is fun to learn about nature and Bug Under Glass creates a museum quality Monarch Butterfly display from farm-raised butterflies. Art that has a story is much more fun!