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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>I have authored a popular guide to the more common Kansas butterflies. A brief review by reporter Beccy Tanner appeared in today’s Wichita Eagle. Here is the text and the URL. There is a photo of the cover (featuring a Regal Fritillary) in the online edition. I’ll be adapting the guide for the GPNC website soon and will let the list know when that is accomplished.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>Jim Mason, Naturalist<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><a href="mailto:Jim@gpnc.org">Jim@gpnc.org</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>Great Plains Nature Center<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>6232 E. 29th Street North<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>Wichita, KS 67220-2200<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>316-683-5499 x103 - voice<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>316-688-9555 - fax<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><a href="http://www.gpnc.org">www.gpnc.org</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><div style='mso-element:para-border-div;border:none;border-bottom:dotted windowtext 3.0pt;padding:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in'><p class=MsoNormal style='border:none;padding:0in'><o:p> </o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>Mourning Cloak. Sleepy Orange. American Snout. And, Great Spangled Fritillary.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>Go anywhere in the natural state of Kansas and you are likely to see them: butterflies flitting from one wildflower to another.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>Ever wonder what that black butterfly with the white-and-blue dots flitting among the fennel and carrot row in your garden is called?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>Or the fastest way to tell the difference between a butterfly and a moth?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>Jim Mason’s latest book, “A Pocket Guide to Common Kansas Butterflies,” answers it all.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>The guide features 61 of the most common butterfly species found in Kansas. The book, with brightly colored pictures telling the range, flight times and where you can find each species of butterfly, is the latest in an ongoing series published by the Great Plains Nature Center.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>The center also has printed books on waterbirds, snakes, mammals, and wildflower and grasses. All are free and available to the public.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>If you want them mailed to you, the cost is $3. Mail checks payable to the GPNC and send your order to: Owl’s Nest Gift Shop, Great Plains Nature Center, 6232 E. 29th St. North, Wichita, KS 67220.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>By the way, that black butterfly with the blue dots is the black swallowtail.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>And as for a quick way to tell the difference between butterflies and moths? It’s all in the antennae, Mason said. Butterflies have knobby antennas.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>“I got introduced to wildflower gardening back in the 1980s,” said Mason, naturalist at the Great Plains Nature Center. “I began noticing things – such as certain caterpillars grew up on certain plants. I came to appreciate butterflies and their usage with wildflowers. Without the wildflowers, they wouldn’t be here.”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>The book will be free to Great Plains Nature Center visitors.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>Read more here:</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'> <a href="http://www.kansas.com/2012/06/07/2364481/butterfly-handbook-covers-kansas.html#storylink=misearch#storylink=cpy">http://www.kansas.com/2012/06/07/2364481/butterfly-handbook-covers-kansas.html#storylink=misearch#storylink=cpy</a> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div></body></html>