News tagged with butterflies
Related topics: species , climate change
Butterflies seek higher ground to escape warmer temperatures
A study of beleaguered butterflies in California provides some of the best clues yet as to how other animals may react to climate change, scientists say.
Feb 08, 2010 |
3 / 5 (2) |
0
Conservation from space: Landscape diversity helps to conserve insects
Rugged, hilly landscapes with a range of different habitat types can help maintain more stable butterfly populations and thus aid their conservation, according to new findings published today (8 February 2010) in the journal ...
Feb 08, 2010 |
not rated yet |
0
How the butterflies got their spots
(PhysOrg.com) -- How two butterfly species have evolved exactly the same striking wing colour and pattern has intrigued biologists since Darwin's day. Now, scientists at Cambridge have found 'hotspots' in ...
Feb 05, 2010 |
4.7 / 5 (3) |
0
|
Monarch butterflies reveal a novel way in which animals sense the Earth's magnetic field
Building on prior investigation into the biological mechanisms through which monarch butterflies are able to migrate up to 2,000 miles from eastern North America to a particular forest in Mexico each year, ...
Jan 25, 2010 |
3.8 / 5 (5) |
0
|
Butterflies Reeling From Impacts of Climate and Development
(PhysOrg.com) -- California butterflies are reeling from a one-two punch of climate change and land development, says an unprecedented analysis led by UC Davis butterfly expert Arthur Shapiro.
Jan 11, 2010 |
2 / 5 (4) |
2
|
Sparkly Spiders and Photonic Fish
(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists in Israel and the UK have uncovered the details of how certain fish and spiders create their iridescent scales and silvery skins.
Dec 09, 2009 |
4.5 / 5 (2) |
0
Butterfly proboscis to sip cells
A butterfly's proboscis looks like a straw -- long, slender, and used for sipping -- but it works more like a paper towel, according to Konstantin Kornev of Clemson University. He hopes to borrow the tricks of this piece ...
Nov 22, 2009 |
not rated yet |
0
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.
Nov 21, 2009 |
4.5 / 5 (2) |
0
Butterfly payload to launch Nov. 16 on space shuttle
When NASA's space shuttle Atlantis launches for the International Space Station on Nov. 16 it will carry a University of Colorado at Boulder butterfly experiment that will be monitored by thousands of K-12 ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Nov 10, 2009 |
5 / 5 (1) |
0
Can biodiversity persist in the face of climate change?
(PhysOrg.com) -- Predictions made over the last decade about the impacts of climate change on biodiversity may be exaggerated, according to a paper published in the journal Science.
Nov 06, 2009 |
3.2 / 5 (9) |
2
Caught in the act: Scientists find butterflies splitting into two species
(PhysOrg.com) -- Breaking up may actually not be hard to do, say scientists who've found a population of tropical butterflies that may be on its way to a split into two distinct species.
Nov 05, 2009 |
4.5 / 5 (8) |
5
Hearing on the wing: New structure discovered in butterfly ears
(PhysOrg.com) -- A clever structure in the ear of a tropical butterfly that potentially makes it able to distinguish between high and low pitch sounds has been discovered by scientists from the University ...
Oct 21, 2009 |
4.5 / 5 (6) |
0
Nanometric butterfly wings created
A team of researchers from the State University of Pennsylvania (USA) and the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (UAM) have developed a technique to replicate biological structures, such as butterfly wings, ...
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Oct 08, 2009 |
4.7 / 5 (7) |
3
Panama butterfly migrations linked to El Nino, climate change
A high-speed chase across the Panama Canal in a Boston Whaler may sound like the beginning of another James Bond film—but the protagonist of this story brandishes a butterfly net and studies the effects of ...
Oct 05, 2009 |
2.5 / 5 (4) |
0
Butterfly experiment a prairie masterpiece in the making
After waiting for a warm, summery day, biologist Doug Taron and a handful of colleagues fanned out through a thousand acres of restored prairie this month, stroking plants with delicate paintbrushes in hopes of adding a little ...
Sep 28, 2009 |
4.6 / 5 (5) |
0
