Butterfly
Butterfly wings captured in slow motion footage
Butterfly wings are a bit of a mystery and “conventionally considered aerodynamically inefficient”. Researchers have analysed air flow movements behind butterfly and mechanical wings, and found that their wings clap together during the upstroke thrusting the animal forwards. This is crucial for fast take-off and evasive manoeuvres and may help explain the evolution of wings. …
Butterfly, A $1.25 Billion Heathtech Company, Launches New Ultrasound Technology In The U.K.
Since its introduction in 2018, the Butterfly iQ device has seen adoption by thousands of … [+] physicians, EMTs, physician assistants, nurses and other practitioners in the U.S. and having now received CE marking, the device is available in the U.K. Butterfly Network Wednesday September 25 saw the U.K. launch of a device that has …
Big Butterfly Count: Fine weather boosts species in UK
Media playback is unsupported on your device Media captionPainted lady butterflies have been seen across the country A once-in-a-decade mass emergence of painted lady butterflies saw nearly half a million recorded across the UK. Results from the Big Butterfly Count, which took place over three weeks this summer, showed 30 times more painted ladies arrived …
Simone Manuel wins historic world title as Dressel breaks Phelps’ 100m butterfly mark | Sport
Simone Manuel wasn’t swimming up to her standards, and she felt her relay anchor leg that resulted in a silver medal for the US proved it. Then she remembered it’s about bouncing back. Manuel did just that in the 100m freestyle, winning her second straight title at the world championships on Friday. Relegated to Lane …
Michael Phelps’ 10-year world record in 200 butterfly broken by Hungarian teenager
Kristof Milak of Hungary won the 200-meter butterfly at the world swimming championships, breaking Michael Phelps’ 10-year-old world record. Milak touched in 1 minute, 50.73 seconds on Wednesday to lower the mark of 1:51.51 that Phelps set at the 2009 worlds in Rome during the height of the high-tech suit era. FLASHBACK: MICHAEL PHELPS SAYS …
Painted lady butterfly influx needs people to count them
Image copyright Butterfly Conservation/PA Image caption Travelling at speeds of up to 30mph, the painted lady butterfly migrates 7,500 miles a year A potential mass influx of butterflies to the UK has led to calls for volunteers to help count them. The painted lady butterfly commonly flies to the UK during the summer months, but …
Purple emperor butterfly makes ‘official’ Norfolk comeback
The UK’s second largest butterfly has “officially” returned to Norfolk after nearly half a century, experts have confirmed. The purple emperor was declared extinct in the county in the early 1970s and has declined by 31% across the UK in the last 10 years. “Thanks to… changes to the way we manage our woodlands, we’re …
Butterfly Symbol Meaning in Feng Shui and Chinese Culture
In China, butterfly has been a popular symbol for centuries. The butterfly is called ‘hu tieh’ in Mandarin language. The word ‘tieh’ translates as seventy years, and because of this the animals are taken as a symbol of long life. Butterfly to the Chinese also represents love, specifically young love. It symbolizes an undying bond …
