The green heron is a small heron of North and Central America. Butorides is from Middle English butor "bittern" and Ancient Greek -oides, "resembling", and virescens is Latin for "greenish".
The Acadian flycatcher is a small insect-eating bird of the tyrant flycatcher family.
Matthew Raymond Dillon is an American actor and film director. He made his feature film debut in Over the Edge (1979) and established himself as a teen idol by starring in the films My Bodyguard (1980), Little Darlings (1980), Tex (1982), Rumble Fish (1983), The Outsiders (1983) and The Flamingo Kid (1984). From the late 1980s onward, Dillon achieved further success, starring in Drugstore Cowboy (1989), Singles (1992), The Saint of Fort Washington (1993), To Die For (1995), Beautiful Girls (1996), In & Out (1997), There's Something About Mary (1998), and Wild Things (1998). In a 1991 article, famed movie critic Roger Ebert referred to him as the best actor within his age group, along with Sean Penn.
Hymenopodidae is a family of the order Mantodea (mantises), which contains six subfamilies. Some of the species in this family mimic flowers and are found camouflaged among them; these are called Flower Mantises. The coloration is aggressive mimicry, luring prey to approach close enough to be seized and eaten.
The Adonia was a festival celebrated annually by women in ancient Greece to mourn the death of Adonis, the consort of Aphrodite. It is best attested in classical Athens, though other sources provide evidence for the ritual mourning of Adonis elsewhere in the Greek world, including Hellenistic Alexandria and Argos in the second century AD.
Russula virescens is a basidiomycete mushroom of the genus Russula, and is commonly known as the green-cracking russula, the quilted green russula, or the green brittlegill. It can be recognized by its distinctive pale green cap that measures up to 15 cm (6 in) in diameter, the surface of which is covered with darker green angular patches. It has crowded white gills, and a firm, white stipe that is up to 8 cm (3 in) tall and 4 cm (1.6 in) thick. Considered to be one of the best edible mushrooms of the genus Russula, it is especially popular in Spain and China. With a taste that is described variously as mild, nutty, fruity, or sweet, it is cooked by grilling, frying, sautéeing, or eaten raw. Mushrooms are rich in carbohydrates and proteins, with a low fat content.
Dillon Quartermaine is a fictional character from General Hospital, an American soap opera on the ABC network.
Micrommata is a genus of huntsman spiders with palaearctic distribution. The genus was first described by Pierre André Latreille in 1804.
The singing honeyeater is a small bird found in Australia, and is part of the honeyeater family, Meliphagidae. The bird lives in a wide range of shrub-land, wood-land and coastal habitat. It is relatively common and is widespread right across Australia west of the Great Dividing Range, through to the west coast and on Western Australian coastal islands. It does not occur in other countries.
Cephaleuros virescens is an algal plant pathogen infecting tea, coffee,guava and coconut.
The Sunda bulbul is a songbird species in the bulbul family. It is the type species of the genus Ixos. It is endemic to Indonesia where it occurs on Sumatra and Java in its natural habitat of subtropical or tropical moist montane forests. It is not considered a threatened species by the IUCN.
Heliothis virescens, commonly known as the tobacco budworm, is a moth of the Noctuidae family found throughout the eastern and southwestern United States along with parts of Central America and South America.
Blepharoctenucha is a monotypic moth genus in the family Geometridae described by Warren in 1895. Its only species, Blepharoctenucha virescens, first described by Arthur Gardiner Butler in 1880, is known from India and Taiwan.
Acanthocinini is a tribe of longhorn beetles of the Lamiinae subfamily. It was described by Blanchard in 1845.
Dindica virescens is a moth of the family Geometridae first described by Arthur Gardiner Butler in 1878. It is found in Japan.
Onciderini is a tribe of longhorn beetles of the Lamiinae subfamily.
Darwinia virescens, commonly known as the Murchison darwinia, is a plant in the myrtle family Myrtaceae and which is endemic to a small area on the west coast of Western Australia near Geraldton.
Sternotomis virescens is a species of beetle in the family Cerambycidae. It was described by Westwood in 1845. It has a wide distribution in Africa. It feeds on Coffea canephora.
Phosphorus virescens is a species of beetle in the family Cerambycidae. It was described by Olivier in 1795, originally under the genus Cerambix. It has a wide distribution throughout Africa.
Thyrassia virescens is a moth in the family Zygaenidae. It was described by George Hampson in 1892 from Sri Lanka.
