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A home cook used a day off to make pear butter from fruit grown on their own tree, preserving the harvest by hand. The batch was seasoned with lemon, ginger, star anise, cardamom, nutmeg and black pepper. They noted the process is a real workout to do manually, sharing the result with fellow food and gardening enthusiasts.

Home cooks are sharing seasonal recipes as autumn sets in, with roasted butternut squash soup a popular choice. One version combines roasted squash with carrots, celery, leeks, parsley, nutmeg, butter, cream and vegetable stock. The dish marks the annual shift toward warm, comforting autumn cooking.

A simple art tutorial showing how to draw and colour a cute butterfly in easy steps is drawing large attention online, with engagement approaching 300,000. The lesson walks viewers through each stage of the drawing, making it accessible for children and beginners, and reflects the ongoing popularity of easy, family-friendly drawing guides.

A collection of 16 butternut squash dinner recipes is being promoted as go-to meals for the fall season. The roundup highlights the seasonal popularity of butternut squash in comfort cooking, offering readers a range of dinner ideas to cycle through as autumn sets in.

Nature photographs showing bees and a butterfly at Jara Island, South Korea, are being shared under nature and travel tags. The images capture pollinators feeding on flowers, and viewers are responding to the close-up wildlife photography. Jara Island, on the Han River near Gapyeong, is a popular destination for such scenery.

A gardener is preparing to cut down a self-seeded patch of butterfly pea and Jewels of Opar that spread over the summer, chopping and dropping the material to feed fall plantings of greens, peas, pumpkins and tomatoes. Butterfly pea is noted as a heavy nitrogen fixer, making the volunteer growth valuable free fertiliser for the autumn vegetable bed.

An artist has shared an oil painting titled 'Butterflies I', depicting a colourful variety of butterflies, tagged for wall art and DIY painting. The artwork is described in Italian, German, English, Japanese and Chinese, and was posted under art and insect-themed hashtags, drawing modest engagement from viewers of home and garden content.

Researchers studying nearly 400 European butterfly species found that wings deform during flapping, causing stripe patterns to shift in barber-pole-style motion illusions. Simulations showed the effect is widespread across species, likely helping butterflies mislead predators about their true speed and direction of travel mid-flight.

Two monarch butterflies have been tracked migrating from Canada all the way to the Tennessee National Wildlife Refuge, a journey of thousands of kilometres along the species' annual migration route. The tracking offers a rare detailed look at the butterflies' flight paths, highlighting the refuge's role as a stopover habitat and drawing attention to ongoing monarch conservation efforts across North America.

In Arizona, the Garden House on Butterfly Lane invites visitors to pick a free bouquet of flowers and linger for the sense of community the space fosters. The initiative combines a small garden gesture with a gathering place for neighbors, drawing attention for its simple, generous model of bringing people together through flowers.

Wildlife photographer mramsdellpics shared a macro photograph of a grey hairstreak butterfly (Strymon melinus) perched on a flower, captioned 'Lost faith... Can be incredibly hard to find again'. The image highlights the small butterfly's delicate grey markings and is drawing appreciation from butterfly and macro photography enthusiasts.

Food & Wine has published a roundup of 26 recipes and ideas for cooking with butternut squash during the fall season. The collection arrives as autumn produce hits peak availability, with the gourd a staple of seasonal soups, roasts, and baked dishes. Home cooks looking for inspiration as the weather cools are sharing the ideas widely.

A new garden has been established in Beaumont, Texas, designed to support butterflies, bees and other local wildlife. The project highlights growing community interest in pollinator-friendly green spaces and urban habitats, adding to efforts in the region to protect insect populations and provide food and shelter for native species.

Sany Nutrition Group has held a grand opening at the former Butterball plant in Jonesboro, Arkansas, bringing the long-shuttered facility back into use. The reopening is being covered by local news in the region, drawing attention as a sign of new economic activity and jobs for the community.

WWLP's Mass Appeal program shared a recipe for roasted butternut squash soup, walking viewers through preparing the seasonal dish. The recipe, typical of the show's cooking segments, highlights squash as a fall staple. Interest in the item reflects the seasonal appetite for warm, simple soup recipes as cooler weather sets in.

Montana and Wyoming are in for one more unusually warm day, with forecasters calling for temperatures in the 70s and 80s Fahrenheit on Friday. After that, conditions are expected to shift back to more typical autumn weather. Forecasters are framing the warmth as a brief stretch of summer-like temperatures before the seasonal pattern resumes across the region, including cities such as Billings, Bozeman, Butte and Dillon.

A Crested Butte-based ski film company is marking three decades of taking its films on tour, according to the Colorado Sun. The company has spent 30 years screening ski movies for audiences, and it continues to travel and show its work to this day. Its longevity stands out in an industry where touring film outfits have largely faded.

The Linwood team has released the first and only planned release candidate of Butterfly 2.6.1, its open-source note-taking app. The update improves the presentation tool, adds automatic document thumbnails, refines zoom, rotation and input controls, and makes file management and saving smoother. Fixes also cover collaboration and embeds. The app's users are discussing the changes ahead of the stable release.

A Michelin-starred chef's mashed potato recipe has drawn attention for calling for an amount of butter so large that readers assumed it was a typo. Fans who have made the dish say the extreme quantity is intentional and worth it, praising the rich, silky result. The recipe is circulating widely as home cooks debate just how indulgent restaurant-quality mashed potatoes should be.

Popular Science reports that butterfly wings produce dazzling optical illusions, with their microscopic structures manipulating light to create shifting colors and patterns. The piece explains the physics behind how these natural nanostructures bend and scatter light, producing effects that have long fascinated scientists studying optics and biomimicry.

A hiker walking near Ginučiai in Lithuania reported seeing a Polygonia c-album, the comma butterfly, for the first time. The insect is known for the notched edges of its forewings and its orange, brown and black colouring, which mimics fallen leaves. Grass snakes were also spotted along the same trail.

Calusa Park's butterfly garden is being showcased for its fluttering pollinators and blooming plants, drawing attention from local news coverage. The feature highlights the garden as a destination where visitors can observe butterflies among nectar-rich flowers, and it comes as community gardens and pollinator habitats remain a popular topic for gardeners and nature lovers.

A woman named Naeema, sheltering in a tent in Gaza, shared a photo of a monarch butterfly that landed in her tent, calling it her photo of the day. The image, circulated alongside a fundraising appeal to help her family, is being shared warmly as a small moment of beauty amid the hardship of displacement.

A recipe for upside-down brown butter apple cake is circulating among food enthusiasts. The dessert flips the classic format, baking apples in browned butter beneath a tender cake that is inverted after baking. Home bakers are sharing the method as a seasonal twist on traditional apple cake, with brown butter adding a nutty depth to the familiar autumn favorite.

A classic French recipe is making the rounds: quatre quarts, a buttery pound cake built on equal weights of eggs, sugar, flour and butter. Home bakers praise it as simple, elegant and ideal for autumn dessert tables, with the equal-parts formula making it easy to remember and adapt to any size of bake.