Beer for a Butterfly Content / Beer for a Butterfly Content for 澳门六合彩资料库 Davis en Bingo! Shapiro Spots First Cabbage White Butterfly of 2023 /news/bingo-shapiro-spots-first-cabbage-white-butterfly-2023 <p><span><span><span>In between the rain and the cold, 澳门六合彩资料库 Davis Distinguished Professor Art Shapiro of the Department of Evolution and Ecology has been searching in vain for the first white cabbage butterfly (</span><em><a href="https://butterfly.ucdavis.edu/butterfly/pieris/rapae"><span><span>Pieris&nbsp;rapae</span></span></a></em><span>)&nbsp;of the year.</span></span></span></p> February 09, 2023 - 12:33pm Cody Kitaura /news/bingo-shapiro-spots-first-cabbage-white-butterfly-2023 Bumblebee and Butterfly, Where Are You? /news/bumblebee-and-butterfly-where-are-you Distinguished Professor Art Shapiro鈥檚 Beer for a Butterfly Contest is one of two New Year鈥檚 entomology contests at 澳门六合彩资料库 Davis. December 28, 2022 - 12:02pm Dave Jones /news/bumblebee-and-butterfly-where-are-you IN BRIEF: From New Revenue to Butterflies /news/brief-from-new-revenue-to-butterflies <div>&nbsp; <h2 class="heading--underline text-align-center"><span>INDEX</span></h2> <ul> <li><strong><span>Members sought for Revenue Generation Task Force </span></strong></li> <li><strong><span>Look for eduroam鈥檚 new security certificate</span></strong></li> <li><strong><span>The Big Shift鈥檚 next phase: Sprocket District</span></strong></li> <li><strong><span>Professor Shapiro spots his cabbage white butterfly</span></strong></li> </ul> <hr> <h3 class="MsoNormal"><strong><span>Have revenue-generating ideas?</span></strong></h3> <p class="MsoNormal"><span>澳门六合彩资料库 Davis is forming a Revenue</span></p></div> January 25, 2022 - 9:06am Dave Jones /news/brief-from-new-revenue-to-butterflies UPDATED: 鈥1st鈥 Bumblebee Is Actually 2 /news/1st-bumblebee-yes-1st-butterfly-no <p class="MsoNormal"><span><strong>Updated 2 p.m. Jan. 3: </strong>We have a winner! Make that two winners, each of whom spotted and photographed the 鈥渇irst鈥 bumblebee of 2022 in different parts of the Arboretum at the same time on New Year鈥檚 Day. <a href="https://ucanr.edu/blogs/blogcore/postdetail.cfm?postnum=51214">Read the story and see the photos, plus a clip from today鈥檚 <em>Good Day Sacramento</em> television show.</a></span></p> January 03, 2022 - 8:21pm Dave Jones /news/1st-bumblebee-yes-1st-butterfly-no Updated: 鈥楥omplicated鈥 Butterfly Contest Ends /news/about-that-butterfly-contest-its-complicated <p><strong>Updated 8 p.m. Feb. 3:</strong> Professor Art Shapiro officially closed his Beer for a Butterfly contest tonight without a winner for the first time in the contest鈥檚 49-year history. For the 鈥渃omplicated鈥 reasons explained below, he had extended the contest until 5 p.m. Sunday (Feb. 2), then again to 5 p.m. today 鈥 but no one brought in a cabbage white butterfly <em>(Pieris rapae). </em>As for the beer that went unclaimed, Shapiro said he intends to go drink a pitcher with a friend later this week. On a scientific note, about the late date of the cabbage white鈥檚 first flight, Jan.</p> February 03, 2020 - 2:59pm Dave Jones /news/about-that-butterfly-contest-its-complicated 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 THE DOWNLOAD: First Butterfly, Referendum Explained, TEDMED /news/download-first-butterfly-unitrans-vote <p>Art Shapiro鈥檚 annual Beer for a Butterfly contest is over, and he has again netted the first cabbage white butterfly in the region and will be treating himself to a beer.</p> <p>He made the find last Friday (Jan. 25) in Suisun City, recording the fourth-earliest flight in that city of a <em>Pieris rapae</em><em> 鈥</em> which needs a string of warm days to take flight 鈥 in his almost five decades of studying of biological responses to climate change.</p> January 29, 2019 - 1:00pm Cody Kitaura /news/download-first-butterfly-unitrans-vote THE DOWNLOAD: Butterfly Found, Meat Lost, Olive Oil Touted /news/download-butterfly-found-vegan-frat <p>Art Shapiro didn't think Friday would be the day, but his former grad student called it perfectly.</p> January 23, 2018 - 9:33am Cody Kitaura /news/download-butterfly-found-vegan-frat THE DOWNLOAD: Student-Created Plays, Solar House, Tweets /news/download-student-created-plays-solar-house-tweets <p>International students are expressing more of their own culture at 澳门六合彩资料库 Davis through a new club, the Davis Chinese Theater and Comedy Club. Learn how it got started and how it's benefiting in the above video.</p> January 09, 2018 - 12:00pm Cody Kitaura /news/download-student-created-plays-solar-house-tweets 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