News tagged with black butterflies

Tree-eating bugs threaten Monarch butterfly in Mexico

The mysterious Monarch butterfly, which migrates en masse annually between Canada and Mexico, is now facing a new peril: another insect thriving in Western Mexican forests.

Biology / Ecology

created Nov 21, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0




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Bird color variations speed up evolution: research

Researchers have found that bird species with multiple plumage colour forms within in the same population, evolve into new species faster than those with only one colour form, confirming a 60 year-old evolution ...

Biology / Evolution

created May 09, 2012 | popularity 3.4 / 5 (5) | comments 39 | with audio podcast

Science fair winner publishes new study on butterfly foraging behavior

University of Florida lepidopterist Andrei Sourakov has spent his life's work studying moths and butterflies. But it was his teenage daughter, Alexandra, who led research on how color impacts butterflies' feeding patterns.

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Apr 30, 2012 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Butterfly wings' 'art of blackness' could boost production of green fuels

Butterfly wings may rank among the most delicate structures in nature, but they have given researchers powerful inspiration for new technology that doubles production of hydrogen gas — a green fuel of the future — ...

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Mar 26, 2012 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Threatened butterfly vanishes from Florida refuge

For more than a year, Bahia Honda State Park biologist Jim Duquesnel traversed the nature sanctuary with two hopes. He wanted to see a Miami blue butterfly and rid the Florida Keys outpost of as many iguanas ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Feb 15, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Treasure trove of wildlife found in Peru park

The Wildlife Conservation Society's (WCS) Peru program announced today the discovery of 365 species previously undocumented in Bahuaja Sonene National Park (BSNP) in southeastern Peru.

Biology / Ecology

created Feb 02, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

MSU geneticist helps find butterfly gene, clue to age-old question

(PhysOrg.com) -- Years after sleeping in hammocks in the wilds of Peru and Panama, collecting hundreds of thousands of samples of colorful insects, Mississippi State assistant professor Brian Counterman now ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created Jan 30, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Appalachian tiger swallowtail butterfly is a hybrid of two other swallowtails, scientists find

(PhysOrg.com) -- Flitting among the cool slopes of the Appalachian Mountains is a tiger swallowtail butterfly species that evolved when two other species of swallowtails hybridized long ago, a rarity in the ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Sep 08, 2011 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (3) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

Barcodes refocus understanding of ecosystems

You're probably familiar with barcodes, those black and white stripes on most store items that bring about the familiar "beep" when scanned at checkout. They determine whether a scanned item is a gallon of ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created Aug 12, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

'Supergene' is key to copycat butterflies

Since Charles Darwin, biologists have pondered the mystery of "mimicry butterflies", which survive by copying the wing patterns of other butterflies that taste horrible to their predators, birds.

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Aug 12, 2011 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (7) | comments 0

Britain's rarest spider moves to new home

The UK’s rarest spider is moving house today -- in a plastic bottle supplied by conservation group the RSPB.

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Aug 11, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 0


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