How long do butterflies live with wings?Most adult butterflies live onlyone or two weeks, but some species hibernate during the winter and may live several months.
The lifespan of most adult butterflies is about2-3 weeksbut this can vary greatly among species.
Butterfly wings are covered in minuscule scales that help add structure to the wing, as well as provide the colors that serve as either camouflage or warning signs to deter predators. Just brushing a wing with your finger removes hundreds of those scales, which can never grow back.
Why do butterflies get tattered wings? Rough Encounters. Over the course of a butterfly's life, its wings can be scratched by thorns, bristles, branches, grasses or anything sharp it encounters.
Why are my butterflies wings breaking?
Once the wings are dry they are dead tissue and cannot be repaired. The wings are covered with tiny modified hairs or scales and as the butterfly flaps and flies the scales fall off so their wings wear out over time
Is it OK to touch a butterfly's wings?
Butterfly wings are covered with tiny scales, each a single color. Most of the colors are produced by pigments, but the beautiful iridescence of some butterflies results from a reflective microstructure on the scale's surface.Don't touch a butterfly's wing—the "powder" that rubs off is actually the scales.
Can butterflies see their wings?
Can Butterflies see their own wings?Butterflies can, in fact, see their own wings! Butterflies have compound eyes which give them a nearly 360-degree (up to 344 degrees for some species) field of vision, both vertically and horizontally
What does a butterfly eat?
nectar
Because of their straw-like mouthparts, butterflies are mainly restricted to a liquid diet. Butterflies use their proboscis to drinksweet nectar from flowers. Nectar sometimes resides deep within a flower and the proboscis allows the butterfly to reach this sugary treat.
Many kinds of butterflies, mainly males feed on moist substances like puddles, wet gravel, scat, sweat and tears. They are gathering salts and minerals to feed the female to aid with egg development. Sometimes, many do it like a puddle club.
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A small-sized butterfly with tattered hind wings in Yio Chu Kang Crescent forest, Singapore perches on a fern frond on 7 Jul 2022.
One way to prevent painful calf muscle cramps in the middle of the night
6 July 2022: One way to prevent painful calf muscle cramps in the middle of the night may be to exercise using the Leg Push Exercise Machine found in many public fitness corners in Singapore's residential estate.I am Dr Sing Kong Yuen, BVMS (Glasgow). I am a veterinary surgeon at Toa Payoh Vets. In the past 3 years, I experienced sudden calf muscle cramps in the middle of the night. The cramps would start slowly inside the calf muscles of one leg and might occur in the other leg. I would try to extend my knee or flex it, hoping to recover. I wished that the leg would be amputated, such was the high intensity of pain in the calf muscle. I could feel the pain spreading up to the thigh muscles .Some years ago, I consulted a specialist in Singapore General Hospital.
X-rays and MRI of the calf muscles were done. NO diagnosis of the muscle cramps. The pain recured without warning for a few times. I had my anti-muscle ointment ready to rub onto the muscles when the calf muscle cramps.For the past year, I used the Leg Push Machine to strengthen my calf muscles and knee by stepping onto it ton elevate my legs and body. So far, I noted that my calf muscles are no longer soft and flabby. I don't have worries about when the calf muscles will spasm and cramp when I sleep.Whether the machine helps or not, it will take research and another 4 years to know. Much depends on the individual's health. If the cause of calf muscle cramps is unknown and the person is healthy, one way to prevent calf muscle camps may be to exercise ondd the Leg Push machine. The best is ALWAYS to consult your doctor for a proper examination.
6 Jun 2022. Yio Chu Kang Cres forest at corner of YCKC road, opposite entrance to Seletar Bus Depot.
Hot and humid but bright sunny morning 10 AM
BUTTERFLIES SEEN
1. Small-sized Common Grass Yellow one fluttering most of the time.
2. Medium-sized yellow white sipping nectar from Bidens pilosa wildflower (video).
3. The Peacock Pansy with right torn hind wing.
4. The Chocolate Pansy perfect
5. The tricoloured butterfly
6. The brown striped with white butterfly. Striped Albatross. Looks very white when seen from afar.
7.The busy buzzing Mormom
8. The tattered wing Chocolate Pansy butterfly x 3 videos
9. The Palm Dart (brown one today) butterfly
10. The Malayan sergeant
11. The Common Parasol
12. The brown dragonfly dull coloured.
13. The striped dragonfly.
14. Mosquitoes with blood
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The Purple Cleome (Cleome rutidosperma) Host
plant for Striped Albatross (Appia libythea olferna), the Pysche
(Leptosia nina malayana) and Cabbage White (Pieris canidia canidia)
The
flower are composed of 4 reddish petals that gradually fade to pink or
light purple. The petals point upwards and are arranged side-by-side in a
fan-like pattern.
Herbaceous plants that form dense mats or grow as an epiphyte.
Compound,
trifoliate leaves are composed of elliptic to narrowly ovate leaflets.
The leaflets are tightly packed together and united at the base without
any intervening stalk. The sunken, pinnate venation creates a quilted
leaf surface.
Listening and Writing for Social Justice - Catherine Coleman Flowers Writer's Digest Jul/Aug 2021
C C Flowers is an internationally recognised environmental activist.
Her book: WASTE. One woman's fight against America's dirty secret.
She is an activist, an enviornmentalist, a teacher, professor and a mentor, but first she is a listener.
Real activism starts with listening. Lisening can also help one write about social justice.
She is from Lowndes Country, Ala., -- her fight to ensure basic human dignity through a right most Amerians take for granted: basic sanitation. Too many people, esp the rural poor, lack an affordable means of disposing cleanly of the waste from their toilets, consequently live amid filth. It was once America's dirty secret until she wrote about it and amplify the voices of those who had not been heard before.
Her book WASTE. For the audience to remember what was written or shared long after they put the book down, it is important to capture voices, places and contexts that paint vivid pictures. With writing for social, one has not only inspire compassion, but action, and hopefully change.
To get the audience to understand the relationshipof environmental justrice to climate change, racial justice, rural American and failing wastewaer treatment systems. It was a tall order.
Listening to others in your community or writing about the environmental and social issues in your state is a step toward justice. It could be about climate change, plastic pollution or lack of sanitation.
Writing amplies the voices of those who have been silenced but could also offer meaningful solutions. Writing for soical justice creates powerful human connections made by putting a name and face to the narrative, which can be both lasting and transformative.
Video Pt 1/2. Why are the two 3-month-old dwarf hamsters scratching all the time?
30 Jun 2022 case study for video creation:
1. HOOK WITH VIDEO
INTERNET CONSULTATION ON 28 JUN 2022:
"My 3-month-old male dwarf hamsters are always scratching," the lady owner messaged me on the Toa Payoh Vets Google Business for an appointment on 29 Jun 2022. "The other sibling scratches now and then. Could the cause be due to inbreeding as they were born from accidental breeding of two sibling parents earlier.? "
Video surveillance when left alone. Both hamsters scratch furiously during the afternoon when left alone
Hamster 2 scratches much more, non-stop when left alone.
2. TOA PAYOH VETS CONSULTATION ON 29 JUN 2022:
The owner brought the two hamsters for consultation. Hamster 1 had ventral dermatitis (inflamed infected skin on the lower part of the body). Hamster 2 had no obvious signs of hair loss on the neck or lower body.
Hamster 1 (left) has more severe skin infections of the lower body. You can see dampness on the skin and increase in dark pigmentation. Hamster 2 also scratches the whole body and bites his paws, but his lower body skin is not inflamed, hyperpigmented or moist due to licking.
"This Winter White hamster is more severely infected as he has hair loss around the lower neck and a damp lower body," I said during consultation at Toa Payoh Vets on 29 Jun. "The skin is infected and inflamed red. Infected skin can be very itchy. Hence the hamster scratches frequently to relieve his itchiness!"
3. INPATIENT TREATMENT AT TOA PAYOH VETS.
I advise clipping of most of the hairs on the lower body for both hamsters, preferably the whole body. "But Hamster 2 has NO skin problems," my assistant was not in favour of shaving the hamster bald. "
"Hamster 2 had no obvious signs of hair loss because the skin infections are below the skin and are at the early stage, " I explained to my assistant. "Shaving them bald enables the skin to be exposed to receive ventilation. The owner can wash them with antiseptic and anti-fungal washes. Otherwise, Hamster 2 may need another consultation if he becomes itchy, causing more expenses to the owner."
The hamsters' lower body hairs were clipped short.
Hamster 2's hairs were tested for fungal infections using the rapid test kit. There was no fungal infections.
DAY 1 VIDEO BEFORE TREATMENT
I videoed the two hamsters with my DSLR camera. You can see IN THIS VIDEO that both hamsters scratch their body, bit their paws for some seconds. After scratching, they would sleep for a short while. They would wake up to scratch their body and ears again.
BEFORE TREATMENT VIDEO OF HAMSTERS UNDER SURVEILLANCE
Hamsters are nocturnal creatures and sleep during the daytime. Body itchiness prevent them from having a sound sleep. The video evidence taken in the afternoon confirms what the owner had experienced at home. That was the reason she consulted Toa Payoh Vets.
DAY 2 VIDEO AFTER TREATMENT. Less scratching on Day 1.
TIPS AND ADVICES
Three-month-old male dwarf hamsters are not young unlike a 3-month-old baby in human beings. They can become fathers are around one month of age. The age of Sexual Maturity for dwarf hamsters is generally two months of age. Males bite, bully and fight at around 2 months if housed together. In this case, the cause of BODY SKIN itchiness from bite wound infections as they would be fighting as males are territorial.
Also, the housing is cluttered.
X = pee areas
Green lines show the entrance and exit of the hamster's tunnel in a cluttered housing
As at 7 Jul 2022, the owner has housed the two male hamsters separately. She sent me the footages of the new housing. The hamsters no longer scratch their body or bite their paws.
4. MORE INFORMATION AT:
https://2010vets.blogspot.com/2022/07/video-pt-12-why-are-two-3-month-old.html
INDONESIA - 9 SEP 2011: Crepuscular rays are beams of sunlight passing through gaps in the clouds. They are made more visible by dust, smoke and other particles in the air. Sunset in Bali
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