Tuesday, November 14, 2006

Dr. Rayetta Pistrum Presents - Butterflies of the CB

Red, you need to let Crumby come back in the house to manage the butterfly library.

Noper. He's too dangerous to be let in the house. I may let him back in on his birthday.

But he's sick Red. Plus he can't smell or hear anything. Something may get him. You know how predators always go after the sick and crazy.

Even so, Rayetta, he can't be let in.

Hmmmm. Well all righty then, Red. But I warned you. This time the Goddess may strike Crumby down and many shall say it was your fault.

He can't come in.

Darn it. Well then, as usual, I shall have to do everything myself. Bye Red.

Bye Rayetta.

The Lovely Druidess Rayetta sashays on off to find Raymone.

Ray, where's Raymone?

He's at a meeting.

Raymone is at a meeting, of what?

Raymone is one of the subcommanders at the Silver Beaver Lodge. They're having a meeting.

What in the world, Ray? Raymone is a subcommander of the Silver Beavers? Aren't they the ones that are smuggling automatic weapons and plastique to grade school children throughout the states of the old Confederacy?

Yepper. But it's OK Rayetta. Raymone is just testing out his disguise.

Great! Well I guess I have to do the photography too. Isn't that about right!!!! Move over Ray.

All righty then.

Hmmm. OK. This is the first one of the Butterflies of the CB by Rayetta Pistrum, Ph. D. This butterfly is the Giant Swallowtail Butterfly. It's ovapositing on the same Zanthoxylum that we found the orange dog caterpillars on a while back. So this butterfly was formerly, probably, one of those orange dog caterpillars.

The giant swallowtail is a large and nervous butterfly. And that reminds me. Since I don't have much time for this activity, and obviously, I'm not going to get much help, we are going to simplify matters of textual reference. We are going to have two reference scales that shall apply to all the CB butterflies.

Scale one. Butterflies come in three size classes; large, medium and small, numbered as 1, 2, 3.

Scale two. Butterflies are placed in three classes according to their behavior; tame, semi-tame and nervous, also numbered as 1,2, 3.

So the giant swallowtail (Papilio cresphontes) is a 1 - 3 butterfly, because it's large and nervous.

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