Beer for a Butterfly Content

Bingo! Shapiro Spots First Cabbage White Butterfly of 2023

Cody Kitaura — February 09, 2023 - 12:33pm

In between the rain and the cold, 51�ԹϺ�� Davis Distinguished Professor Art Shapiro of the Department of Evolution and Ecology has been searching in vain for the first white cabbage butterfly (Pieris rapae) of the year.

Bumblebee and Butterfly, Where Are You?

Dave Jones — December 28, 2022 - 12:02pm

Distinguished Professor Art Shapiro’s Beer for a Butterfly Contest is one of two New Year’s entomology contests at 51�ԹϺ�� Davis.

IN BRIEF: From New Revenue to Butterflies

Dave Jones — January 25, 2022 - 9:06am

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Professor Shapiro spots his cabbage white butterfly

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UPDATED: ‘1st’ Bumblebee Is Actually 2

Dave Jones — January 03, 2022 - 8:21pm

Updated 2 p.m. Jan. 3: We have a winner! Make that two winners, each of whom spotted and photographed the “first” bumblebee of 2022 in different parts of the Arboretum at the same time on New Year’s Day. Read the story and see the photos, plus a clip from today’s Good Day Sacramento television show.

Updated: ‘Complicated’ Butterfly Contest Ends

Dave Jones — February 03, 2020 - 2:59pm

Updated 8 p.m. Feb. 3: Professor Art Shapiro officially closed his Beer for a Butterfly contest tonight without a winner for the first time in the contest’s 49-year history. For the “complicated” reasons explained below, he had extended the contest until 5 p.m. Sunday (Feb. 2), then again to 5 p.m. today — but no one brought in a cabbage white butterfly (Pieris rapae). 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’s first flight, Jan.

Beer for a Butterfly Contest Continues in 2020

Cody Kitaura — January 07, 2020 - 9:45am

The start of a new year can mean only one thing: no, not champagne and confetti — a hunt for butterflies.

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 Pieris rapae before he does (he’s been beaten only a handful of times).

THE DOWNLOAD: First Butterfly, Referendum Explained, TEDMED

Cody Kitaura — January 29, 2019 - 1:00pm

Art Shapiro’s 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.

He made the find last Friday (Jan. 25) in Suisun City, recording the fourth-earliest flight in that city of a Pieris rapae — which needs a string of warm days to take flight — in his almost five decades of studying of biological responses to climate change.

THE DOWNLOAD: Butterfly Found, Meat Lost, Olive Oil Touted

Cody Kitaura — January 23, 2018 - 9:33am

Art Shapiro didn't think Friday would be the day, but his former grad student called it perfectly.

THE DOWNLOAD: Student-Created Plays, Solar House, Tweets

Cody Kitaura — January 09, 2018 - 12:00pm

International students are expressing more of their own culture at 51�ԹϺ�� 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.

Butterfly Hunt Ends Unexpectedly

Cody Kitaura — January 20, 2017 - 9:25am

More Bug News

‘N. Donaldtrumpi’ Is From the ‘Boharti’ — New species of moth recently discovered in our Bohart collection has presidential hair, says the Canadian scientist who named it.

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.