Art Shapiro Content / Art Shapiro Content for 新澳门六合彩内幕信息 Davis en Wildfires Destroy Important Butterfly Habitats /news/wildfires-destroy-important-butterfly-habitats <p>People ask me all the time where butterflies go when it rains. Now they're asking me where they go when it burns.</p> <p>In a word, to the Elysian Fields. They have nowhere else to go!</p> October 15, 2020 - 3:30pm Cody Kitaura /news/wildfires-destroy-important-butterfly-habitats Beer for a Butterfly Contest Continues in 2020 /news/beer-butterfly-contest-continues-2020 <p>The start of a new year can mean only one thing: no, not champagne and confetti 鈥&nbsp;a hunt for butterflies.</p> <p>For nearly five decades, Professor Art Shapiro has sponsored a contest to find the first cabbage white butterfly of the new year in Sacramento, Solano or Yolo counties, with a pitcher of beer up for grabs if anyone finds a <em>Pieris rapae</em> before he does (he鈥檚 been beaten only a handful of times).</p> January 07, 2020 - 9:45am Cody Kitaura /news/beer-butterfly-contest-continues-2020 Butterfly Hunt Ends Unexpectedly /news/butterfly-hunt-ends-unexpectedly <section class="wysiwyg-feature-block "> <h3 class="wysiwyg-feature-block__title">More Bug News</h3> <div class="wysiwyg-feature-block__body"> <p><a href="/news/n-donaldtrumpi-is-from-boharti">鈥楴. Donaldtrumpi鈥 Is From the 鈥楤oharti鈥</a> 鈥 New species of moth recently discovered in our Bohart collection has presidential hair, says the Canadian scientist who named it.</p> </div> </section> <p>The emergence of the first cabbage white butterfly of 2017 was a surprise even to the researcher who has been charting their flight since 1972.</p> January 20, 2017 - 9:25am Cody Kitaura /news/butterfly-hunt-ends-unexpectedly THE DOWNLOAD: Fantasy Bars, Beer, Hydrogen, Snow /news/download-fantasy-bars-beer-hydrogen-snow <p>We hope you haven鈥檛 had your fill of holiday treats, because we鈥檝e got some yummy news to share: the results of the second annual Staff Assembly Holiday Bake-Off. This year鈥檚 contest, an all-bars edition, drew 22 entries. Taking first place was&nbsp;Ed鈥檚 Fantasy Bar, a three-layered treat of shortbread on the bottom, salted caramel in the middle and chocolate on top. It was entered by the Coffee House management team. <em><a href="/news/best-bake-bar-truly-fantasy">Read the complete story, including all the results.</a></em></p> January 10, 2017 - 12:44pm Cody Kitaura /news/download-fantasy-bars-beer-hydrogen-snow Butterfly for Science, Beer for Bragging /news/butterfly-science-beer-bragging <p>You can contribute to science and win a pitcher of beer by competing in Professor Art Shapiro鈥檚 鈥淏eer for a Butterfly鈥 contest, now in its 46th year. The object: Catch the first cabbage white butterfly <em>(Pieris rapae) </em>of the new year in Yolo, Sacramento or Solano counties.</p> January 03, 2017 - 12:17pm Cody Kitaura /news/butterfly-science-beer-bragging Student Beats Shapiro in Butterfly Contest /news/briefs-student-beats-shapiro-butterfly-contest <p>A graduate student has won Professor Art Shapiro's annual Beer for a Butterfly contest for only the fourth time in more than 40 years.</p> January 19, 2016 - 4:18pm Dave Jones /news/briefs-student-beats-shapiro-butterfly-contest