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<h2><b><font size=2 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-weight:normal'>http://www.sfchronicle.com/homeandgarden/article/Butterflies-and-Blooms-at-Conservatory-of-4535368.php<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></h2>
<h2><b><font size=5 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:18.0pt'>'Butterflies
and Blooms' at Conservatory of Flowers<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></h2>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'><img width=430 height=240 id="_x0000_i1026"
src="cid:image001.jpg@01CE57A5.D8ADEB20"><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=photo-cred><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>Lea Suzuki, The Chronicle<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=photo-caption><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>Docent Drew Risner-Davis tries to catch a butterfly on
a stick on opening day of the S.F. Conservatory of Flowers exhibit.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=byline><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>Joe Eaton and Ron Sullivan<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=datestamp><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>May 22, 2013<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>If you've
never met our official state insect (and few have - it's an elusive creature),
now's your chance. <st1:State w:st="on">California</st1:State> dogface
butterflies, so called because males have a poodle-head profile on their
forewings, are on display at the "Butterflies & Blooms" exhibit
through Oct. 20 at the Conservatory of Flowers in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName
w:st="on">Golden Gate</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType w:st="on">Park</st1:PlaceType></st1:place>.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>In a
cottage-garden setting, visitors can mingle with dogfaces and other local
butterflies (monarchs, pipevine swallowtails, buckeyes, mourning cloaks) and
exotics from <st1:place w:st="on">North America</st1:place>'s subtropical
fringe (white peacocks, Julia and zebra longwings). Giant silk moths will join
the mix later.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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Raised in Southern California and <st1:State w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Florida</st1:place></st1:State>,
the insects are shipped here in their pupal stage, under strict federal
regulations. All told, 50 species will rotate through, a new batch arriving
every week. Plants for the exhibit came from the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName
w:st="on">Golden Gate</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType w:st="on">Park</st1:PlaceType></st1:place>
nursery - but don't include any food species for potential caterpillars.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>"We're
practicing butterfly birth control here," curator Lau Hodges explained. A
gazebo and other structures provide safe havens for the insects, and a mesh
canopy overhead keeps them from flying up into the skylight.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>"Butterflies
are the goodwill ambassadors of the pollinator world," said conservatory
spokeswoman Nina Sazevich. "There aren't many pollinators you can fill a
room with."<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Although
bees are more important for food crops, butterflies service a huge range of
flowering plants.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>"Pollination
isn't a process that is commonly understood," said Hodges. "If you
asked most people to explain how a flower turns into an apple, they wouldn't be
able to. But life as we know it wouldn't be possible without pollination - no
flowers, no fruit. We want people to know there are some very important insects
and other animals that do the work."<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Special
events with the nonprofit Pollinator Partnership are planned.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<h3><b><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:13.5pt'>Appearance,
scent<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></h3>
<p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>A flower's
appearance and scent may provide clues to the identity of its pollinator.
Hummingbirds go for red or orange flowers with long nectar tubes; bats prefer
musky-scented, night-blooming white flowers. It's harder to generalize about
butterflies.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'><img width=430 height=240 id="_x0000_i1027"
src="cid:image002.jpg@01CE57A5.D8ADEB20"><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=photo-cred><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>Lea Suzuki, The Chronicle<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=photo-caption><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>The aptly named buckeye butterfly is one of 50 species
that will rotate through the exhibit, which is ongoing through Oct. 20.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>"There
is no specific 'butterfly pollination syndrome,' " writes UC Davis
biologist Arthur Shapiro in his Field Guide to Butterflies of the San Francisco
Bay Area and Sacramento Valley Regions. Most adults don't visit the host plants
they ate as caterpillars; pipevine swallowtails ignore pipevine flowers, which
are pollinated by tiny gnats, and Gulf fritillaries choose buddleia and lantana
over passionflowers. The monarch, which is attracted to milkweed flowers, is a
rare exception.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Other
sources say butterflies have weak preferences for flower color, varying from
species to species. Whites, sulphurs, checkerspots and hairstreaks like yellow
or white flowers; some swallowtails opt for blue. Many, though, visit dozens or
hundreds of flower species across the color spectrum. Butterflies see into the
ultraviolet and may respond to guide marks on petals that humans can't see.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Scent
appears less important. Nectar-rich flowers like the native buckeye and the
exotic buddleia draw multiple species. Capable of learning, butterflies seldom
revisit nectarless flowers. Zebra and Julia longwings are specialized pollen
eaters.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<h3><b><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:13.5pt'>Don't
forget moths<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></h3>
<p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Let's
give the moths their due: They evolved earlier than butterflies and are much
more numerous and diverse. Some, particularly day-flying species, also
pollinate, but not the silk moths - luna, cecropia, polyphemus - that will be
on display. These, as adults, have no functional mouthparts. They ate their
last meals before pupating; as adults, their only goal is finding a mate.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Like other
"advanced" insects - beetles, flies, bees - butterflies and moths
transform from a wormlike larva to an immobile pupa to the familiar adult, or
imago. Complex metamorphosis is a mind-boggling phenomenon. After the larva's
body liquefies, special clusters of cells called imaginal discs build the
future adult within the chrysalis. Hormones coordinate the process by switching
hundreds of genes on and off. And you thought human adolescence was bad!<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>The
payoff is the moment of eclosion, when the butterfly struggles out of its
chrysalis. During our preview visit, great southern whites were emerging like
slow-motion popcorn. Resembling crumpled tissue paper at first, they morphed
into recognizable butterflies as their wings dried and expanded. Neighboring chrysalids
twitched, as if in anticipation. A few buckeyes, mourning cloaks and dogfaces
were already out. On her daily rounds, Hodges checks the Butterfly Bungalow and
releases the butterflies that are ready for action.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'><img width=430 height=240 id="_x0000_i1028"
src="cid:image003.jpg@01CE57A5.D8ADEB20"><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=photo-cred><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>Lea Suzuki, The Chronicle<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=photo-caption><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>Volunteer Colette Marsh (right) helps visitors
identify different species of butterfly in the Butterfly Bungalow at the
exhibit at the Conservatory of Flowers.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>"Little
kids will go nuts over this exhibit," promised Hodges. We suspect they
won't be the only ones.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<h3><b><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:13.5pt'>Butterflies
& Blooms<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></h3>
<p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>10
a.m.-4:30 p.m. Tuesday-Sunday. Through Oct. 20. $7 adults, $5 youths 12-17,
seniors 65 and over, and college students with ID; $2 children 5-11. Free for
children 4 and under. Conservatory of Flowers, <st1:Street w:st="on"><st1:address
w:st="on">100 John F. Kennedy Drive</st1:address></st1:Street>, <st1:place
w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Golden Gate</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType
w:st="on">Park</st1:PlaceType></st1:place>. <a
href="http://www.conservatoryofflowers.org"></a><a
href="http://www.conservatoryofflowers.org">www.conservatoryofflowers.org</a>.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><strong><b><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Pollinator
Partnership, </span></font></b></strong><a href="http://www.pollinator.org"></a><a
href="http://www.pollinator.org">www.pollinator.org</a>.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=dtlcomment><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>Joe Eaton and Ron Sullivan are <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Berkeley</st1:place></st1:City>
freelancers and naturalists. E-mail: <a href="mailto:home@sfchronicle.com">home@sfchronicle.com</a><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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