Description: Hindwings have one short tail. The top side of the wing is brown, males have long oval dark spots on the leading edge of their forewings. The hindwings have submarginal black spots above the tail and below the postmedian line is faint.
The wingspan: ranges from 22–24 mm.

Flighttime: There is one flight period from March to April in the south and in the north it is on wing from mid-May to early June.

Eggs, caterpillars, chrysalis: Females will lay eggs singly on flower buds. The caterpillars eat both the flower and the developing seedpods. Chrysalids hibernate in loosely formed cocoons beneath litter below the plant.

Larval foodplants: include the pea family (Fabaceae), indigo (Baptisia tinctoria), lupine (Lupinus perennis), and rattlebox (Crotalaria sagittalis).

Range: They range from local colonies in Maine west across New York, southern Ontario, and Michigan into Wisconsin, then south along the Atlantic Coast west into Louisiana and eastern Texas. Within this range they tend to stick to open woods and scrublands.

In 2011, zoologists with the Virginia Department of Conservation and Recreation found populations of the butterfly in the city of Suffolk, Virginia, and a volunteer also found a population at Antioch Pines Natural Area Preserve. The butterfly had not been reported in Virginia since 1994.
The species is listed as threatened in Connecticut, New York, and Michigan.

Worldrange: In Eastern Europe to Asia: Further east from the Caucasus to Asia there are seven more species in the Callophrys genus.

In North America, the Callophrys genus with 25 species is found from the northern Canadian coniferous forests to Chiapas in southern Mexico and Guatemala.
So the Callophrys genus contains 34 species worldwide.

In South America to Texas in North America, the similar Cyanophrys genus is found with 17 species.

Butterflies of America and the Interactive Listing of American Butterflies
Frosted Elfin, Callophrys irus (Godart, 1824).

GBIF: Global Biodiversity Information Facility.
World distribution:
Frosted Elfin, Callophrys irus (Godart, 1824).

íNaturalist.org
began as the Master's final project of Nate Agrin, Jessica Kline,
and Ken-ichi Ueda at UC Berkeley's School of Information in 2008.
Frosted Elfin, Callophrys irus (Godart, 1824).

"BUSKSOMMERFUGLENS PALE ALE"

En lille brun sommerfugl fra Florida levere en vigtig ingrediens til en ny bevaringsbevisst øl fra "Gainesville's First Magnitude Brewing".
Gæren til: "Frosted Elfin New England-Style Session Pale Ale" stammer fra honningdugsekret fra bagkroppen på levende busksommerfugle; Frosted Elfin, Callophrys irus fra Apalachicola National Forest som er i familie med Grøn Busksommerfugl, Callophrys rubi som findes i Danmark.

Busksommerfuglen Frosted Elfin var engang udbredt fra Central Florida til Ontario, siger US Fish & Wildlife Service, men er forsvundet landsdækkende på grund af tab af levesteder.

Øllet er et samarbejde mellem bryggeriet og forskerne ved "Florida Museum of Natural History", som indsamlede sommerfuglene og forsigtigt penslede bagkroppen for honningdug sekret, før de blev frigivet tilbage i skoven. Disse honningdug-gærprøver blev multipliceret i petriskåle for at producere, hvad der er nødvendigt til brygning.

A small brown butterfly from Florida is providing a key ingredient for a new conservation-conscious beer from Gainesville's First Magnitude Brewing.

The yeast for the Frosted Elfin New England-Style Session Pale Ale comes from honeydew secretions from the abdomens of live bush butterflies; the Frosted Elfin, Callophrys irus from the Apalachicola National Forest, which is related to the Green Hairstreak, Callophrys rubi, found in Denmark.

The bush butterfly, the Frosted Elfin, was once widespread from Central Florida to Ontario, the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service says, but has disappeared nationwide due to habitat loss.
The beer is a collaboration between the brewery and researchers at the Florida Museum of Natural History, who collected the butterflies and carefully brushed their abdomens for honeydew secretions before releasing them back into the forest. These honeydew yeast samples were multiplied in petri dishes to produce what is needed for brewing.

By Christopher SpataTimes staff
Published May 22, 2019.
A tiny brown butterfly from Florida provided a key ingredient for a new conservation-minded beer from Gainesville's First Magnitude Brewing.

The yeast for Frosted Elfin New England-Style Session Pale Ale originated from the bodies of live frosted elfins in the Apalachicola National Forest. The butterflies once ranged from central Florida to Ontario, the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service said, but have declined nationwide due to habitat loss.

The beer was a collaboration between the brewery and scientists at the Florida Museum of Natural History, who netted the butterflies and gently swabbed them for yeast before releasing them back into the forest. Those yeast samples were multiplied in petri dishes to produce what was needed for brewing.


That flowery-smelling yeast was part of what resulted in a tropical, fruity, hoppy and hazy pale ale that went on sale at First Magnitude's tasting room on May 17 for $12.50 per four pack. The beer is also being sold in some stores around Gainesville, including Lucky's Market. The brewery will hold another release event at the Brass Tap in Tallahassee on May 25.

Jaret Daniels, a professor at the University of Florida and director of the museum's Center for Lepidoptera and Biodiversity told U.S. Fish & Wildlife he was looking for a way to engage a new demographic, specifically beer drinkers, in conservation.

A portion of the proceeds from every can is going directly to butterfly research. The researchers also hope the exposure raises awareness for the frosted elfin.

The butterflies naturally collect yeast on their bodies from the forest's plant life. In a news release posted to the museum website, Daniels noted although the scientists could have collected the yeast straight from the host plants, they thought "it would be much cooler to get it off the butterfly itself."

Wild yeast from plants has been collected for beer-making before, but the project appears to be the first time it has been collected from an insect.

Contact Christopher Spata at cspata@tampabay.com or follow @SpataTimes on Twitter.

Description: It is similar to the western pine elfin but has two dark bars instead of one in the forewing underside cell with strong patterning on the underside.
The wingspan: ranges from 22–27 mm.

Flighttime: There is one flight from March to April in the south, while it occurs between mid-May and early June in the north.

Eegs, caterpillars, chrysalis: Females will lay eggs singly on flower buds. The caterpillars eat both the flower and the developing seedpods. Chrysalids hibernate in loosely formed cocoons beneath litter below the plant.

Larval foodsplants: Include jack pine, Pinus banksiana and white pine, Pinus strobus.

Range: They range across most of the eastern United States and the southern parts of the provinces of Canada. Within this range they tend to sandy areas with pine trees.

References:
"NatureServe Explorer 2.0 - Callophrys niphon Eastern Pine Elfin". explorer.natureserve.org. Retrieved 27 September 2020.
EasternPine Elfin, Butterflies of Canada
Taxon identifiers
Callophrys niphon
Wikidata: Q28817385Wikispecies: Callophrys niphonADW: Callophrys_niphonBAMONA: Callophrys-niphonBioLib: 701823BOLD: 34485BugGuide: 3571GBIF: 4300300iNaturalist: 58550ITIS: 188504MONA: 4328NatureServe: 2.114395NCBI: 1642215Open Tree of Life: 3139968.

Worldrange: In Eastern Europe to Asia: Further east from the Caucasus to Asia there are seven more species in the Callophrys genus.

Range in North America: the Callophrys genus with 25 species is found from the northern Canadian coniferous forests to Chiapas in southern Mexico and Guatemala.
So the Callophrys genus contains 34 species worldwide.

Range in South America: to Texas in North America, the similar Cyanophrys genus is found with 17 species.

Butterflies of America and the Interactive Listing of American Butterflies.
Frosted Eastern Pine Elfin, Callophrys nipnon (Godart, 1824).

GBIF: Global Biodiversity Information Facility.
World distribution:
Frosted Eastern Pine Elfin, Callophrys nipnon (Godart, 1824).

íNaturalist.org
began as the Master's final project of Nate Agrin, Jessica Kline,
and Ken-ichi Ueda at UC Berkeley's School of Information in 2008.
Frosted Eastern Pine Elfin, Callophrys nipnon (Godart, 1824).

"BUSKSOMMERFUGLENS PALE ALE"

En lille brun sommerfugl fra Florida levere en vigtig ingrediens til en ny bevaringsbevisst øl fra "Gainesville's First Magnitude Brewing".
Gæren til: "Frosted Elfin New England-Style Session Pale Ale" stammer fra honningdugsekret fra bagkroppen på levende busksommerfugle; Frosted Elfin, Callophrys irus fra Apalachicola National Forest som er i familie med Grøn Busksommerfugl, Callophrys rubi som findes i Danmark.

Busksommerfuglen Frosted Elfin var engang udbredt fra Central Florida til Ontario, siger US Fish & Wildlife Service, men er forsvundet landsdækkende på grund af tab af levesteder.

Øllet er et samarbejde mellem bryggeriet og forskerne ved "Florida Museum of Natural History", som indsamlede sommerfuglene og forsigtigt penslede bagkroppen for honningdug sekret, før de blev frigivet tilbage i skoven. Disse honningdug-gærprøver blev multipliceret i petriskåle for at producere, hvad der er nødvendigt til brygning.

A small brown butterfly from Florida is providing a key ingredient for a new conservation-conscious beer from Gainesville's First Magnitude Brewing.

The yeast for the Frosted Elfin New England-Style Session Pale Ale comes from honeydew secretions from the abdomens of live bush butterflies; the Frosted Elfin, Callophrys irus from the Apalachicola National Forest, which is related to the Green Hairstreak, Callophrys rubi, found in Denmark.

The bush butterfly, the Frosted Elfin, was once widespread from Central Florida to Ontario, the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service says, but has disappeared nationwide due to habitat loss.
The beer is a collaboration between the brewery and researchers at the Florida Museum of Natural History, who collected the butterflies and carefully brushed their abdomens for honeydew secretions before releasing them back into the forest. These honeydew yeast samples were multiplied in petri dishes to produce what is needed for brewing.

By
Christopher SpataTimes staff
Published May 22, 2019
A tiny brown butterfly from Florida provided a key ingredient for a new conservation-minded beer from Gainesville's First Magnitude Brewing.

The yeast for Frosted Elfin New England-Style Session Pale Ale originated from the bodies of live frosted elfins in the Apalachicola National Forest. The butterflies once ranged from central Florida to Ontario, the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service said, but have declined nationwide due to habitat loss.

The beer was a collaboration between the brewery and scientists at the Florida Museum of Natural History, who netted the butterflies and gently swabbed them for yeast before releasing them back into the forest. Those yeast samples were multiplied in petri dishes to produce what was needed for brewing.


That flowery-smelling yeast was part of what resulted in a tropical, fruity, hoppy and hazy pale ale that went on sale at First Magnitude's tasting room on May 17 for $12.50 per four pack. The beer is also being sold in some stores around Gainesville, including Lucky's Market. The brewery will hold another release event at the Brass Tap in Tallahassee on May 25.

Jaret Daniels, a professor at the University of Florida and director of the museum's Center for Lepidoptera and Biodiversity told U.S. Fish & Wildlife he was looking for a way to engage a new demographic, specifically beer drinkers, in conservation.

A portion of the proceeds from every can is going directly to butterfly research. The researchers also hope the exposure raises awareness for the frosted elfin.

The butterflies naturally collect yeast on their bodies from the forest's plant life. In a news release posted to the museum website, Daniels noted although the scientists could have collected the yeast straight from the host plants, they thought "it would be much cooler to get it off the butterfly itself."

Wild yeast from plants has been collected for beer-making before, but the project appears to be the first time it has been collected from an insect.

Contact Christopher Spata at cspata@tampabay.com or follow @SpataTimes on Twitter.

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Tropical Greenstreak, Cyanophrys herodotus (Fabricius, 1793).
På engelsk: the tropical green hairstreak or tropical greenstreak, er en sommerfugl i familien Lycaenidae.

Udseende: Oversiden er blå og undersiden er grøn. Bagvingerne er med haler i analhjørne og har én rødbrun plet ved den nederste bagvingehjørne.
Vingefanget er 22-29 mm.

Habitatets: består af åbne forstyrrede områder i tropiske og subtropiske regnskove og skyskove i højder fra 600 til omkring 2.000 meter.
Adfærd: De søger nektar, og mudpuding.

Flyvetid: Voksne er på vungerne fra slutningen af maj til slutningen af oktober i det sydlige Texas. De er på vingerne året rundt i Mellemamerika og Mexico.

Værtsplanter: Larverne lever på blade og blomster fra forskellige buske og træer, herunder det Spanske Flag / Ildkrone, Lantana camara, Tropisk Lilac, Cornutia grandifolia, Pagoda Blomst, Clerodendron paniculatum, Lithraea brasiliensis, Pepper træ reller Peruvisk Pepper træ, Schinus molle, Mango, Mangifera indica og Guaco, Mikania sarter.

Udbredelse: findes i Mexico, Guatemala, Panama, Nicaragua, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Brasilien, Paraguay og Argentina. Sjældne træk kan findes så langt nordpå som det sydlige Texas.

I Sydamerika til Texas i Nordamerika findes Cyanophrys slægt med 17 arter.

Butterflies of America and the Interactive Listing of American Butterflies.
Tropical Greenstreak, Cyanophrys herodotus (Fabricius, 1793).

GBIF: Global Biodiversity Information Facility.
World distribution:
Tropical Greenstreak, Cyanophrys herodotus (Fabricius, 1793).

íNaturalist.org
began as the Master's final project of Nate Agrin, Jessica Kline,
and Ken-ichi Ueda at UC Berkeley's School of Information in 2008.
Tropical Greenstreak, Cyanophrys herodotus (Fabricius, 1793).