Tag Archives: butterfly conservation

More Butterflies and Storm Water Management

Posted on February 2, 2014 by the roused bear

I am trying to get a project started which would manage existing storm water detention basins as butterfly habitat.  It is still in the planning stages–I don’t have an organization yet, but here is how I think it would work. … Continue reading →

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More on Infrastructure

Posted on March 24, 2013 by the roused bear

I looked at some land use data for Iowa.  Iowa State University Outreach and Extension publishes it here.  Calculating the numbers a little bit shows 74% of the land in Iowa as “cropland.”  Apparently there are several different types of cropland, … Continue reading →

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Here it is–the Poweshiek Skipper

Posted on March 11, 2013 by the roused bear

I attended a conference last weekend on the conservation of tallgrass prairie lepidoptera.  I was totally impressed with the turnout and professionalism of the people involved.  The attendance was about 60 people, most of them very intelligent and motivated professionals.  Much … Continue reading →

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More Thoughts about Butterflies

Posted on March 5, 2013 by the roused bear

I am getting ready to attend a conference about butterfly conservation soon.  I was thinking about some butterfly conservation issues, so I went through some of my photos to illustrate the points I would like to make. But the points … Continue reading →

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More on the Idea of the Butterfly Flux

Posted on January 28, 2013 by the roused bear

One of the things about blogging is that you can put ideas out there in real time, maybe while they are in the process of being developed.  So I put out the idea of a “butterfly flux,” and since that … Continue reading →

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Butterfly Flux

Posted on January 24, 2013 by the roused bear

Are you familiar with the concept of flux?  It is sort of a technical concept, and it usually relates to the rate of something (heat, a chemical reaction, photons) across a unit area.  That rate can be in the process … Continue reading →

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What I did on my Winter Vacation

Posted on December 24, 2012 by the roused bear

I have been kind of busy lately and have not posted as often as I did in the summer.  Partially it has been because I have been re-doing my other website. You can find it at  http://www.poweshiekskipper.org It is a … Continue reading →

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The Horizons of Butterfly Conservation

Posted on September 30, 2012 by the roused bear

I have done a little work on the conservation of butterflies, and I think there are three areas that need to be worked on.  I call those areas “horizons.” The first horizon is the conservation of rare butterflies.  Rare butterflies … Continue reading →

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A Vision for the Future

Posted on May 15, 2012 by the roused bear

I have a vision for a butterfly web site that should be developed in the future.  First, I have to point out that there are a lot of great butterfly sites now.  One I really like shows all of the North American … Continue reading →

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