Ensuring the monarch butterfly's survival by saving its milkweed habitat could result from U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) studies initially intended to improve detection of boll weevils with pheromone traps.
Ecology
Oct 1, 2012
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A Washington State University toxicologist has found that three commonly used herbicides can dramatically reduce butterfly populations.
Ecology
Mar 7, 2012
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An international team of scientists from the Universities of Exeter and Oxford in the UK, University of Sydney (Australia), Aarhus University (Denmark) and Massey University (New Zealand) based their research on the ground ...
Plants & Animals
Jan 11, 2012
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Parasitoid larvae that feed within caterpillars that eat cabbage plants influence the plant via the caterpillar, making the cabbage plant an unattractive prospect for moths looking for a spot to lay their ...
Plants & Animals
Nov 16, 2011
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If you want to be surrounded by females on the prowl, it pays to be cool, at least if you are a male butterfly.
Plants & Animals
Jan 6, 2011
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A rare blue butterfly took flight Saturday morning on a windswept bluff of the Palos Verdes Peninsula in California. Then another. And then another.
Plants & Animals
Mar 9, 2010
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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 students across ...
Space Exploration
Nov 10, 2009
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