News tagged with milkweed plants
Habitat loss imperils monarch butterflies
If you see a monarch butterfly lighting in your backyard this year, take an extra moment to enjoy it.
Jul 26, 2011 |
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Global warming may reroute evolution
(PhysOrg.com) -- Rising carbon dioxide levels associated with global warming may affect interactions between plants and the insects that eat them, altering the course of plant evolution, research at the University ...
Feb 16, 2011 |
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Plants can grow quickly or ward off hungry insects, but not both: research
There's a war occurring each day in our backyards - plant versus plant-eating insect versus insect-eating insect. Research by UC Irvine's Kailen Mooney suggests the outcome - of interest to farmers - is a ...
Mar 25, 2010 |
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Study confirms classic theory on the origins of biodiversity
(PhysOrg.com) -- A Cornell study on the diversity of milkweed plants has used new techniques to prove an old theory that explains how the arms race between attacking insects and defended plants led to great ...
Sep 09, 2009 |
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Mystery of monarch migration takes new turn
During the fall, hundreds of millions of monarch butterflies living in eastern North America fly up to 1,500 miles to the volcanic forests of Mexico to spend the winter, while monarchs west of the Rocky Mountains fly to the ...
May 31, 2012 |
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Monarch butterflies down again this year as decline continues: expert
Unlike their colorful wings, the future of Monarch butterflies may not be too bright and their numbers are expected to be alarmingly down again this year, says a Texas A&M University researcher.
Mar 21, 2012 |
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Study reveals how monarch butterflies recolonize northern breeding range
Each year, millions of monarch butterflies (Danaus plexippus) migrate from overwintering grounds in central Mexico to colonize eastern North America, but just how these delicate creatures manage to reach the northern part o ...
Mar 19, 2012 |
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From butterflies, some lessons about life -- and death
If you were to catch Loretta Downs loping through the shoulder-high milkweed along her alley fence come the end of June, you might not realize she was searching for something so sacred it leaves her speechless.
May 26, 2011 |
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Reserve saves trees but not monarch butterflies
(AP) -- This small patch of mountain fir forest is a model of sorts for the global effort to save trees and fight climate change. The problem is that saving trees has not saved the forest's most famous visitors: ...
Nov 27, 2010 |
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Engineered plants make potential precursor to raw material for plastics (w/ Video)
(PhysOrg.com) -- In theory, plants could be the ultimate green factories, engineered to pump out the kinds of raw materials we now obtain from petroleum-based chemicals. But in reality, getting plants to accumulate ...
Nov 08, 2010 |
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Monarch butterflies use medicinal plants to treat offspring for disease: study
(PhysOrg.com) -- Monarch butterflies appear to use medicinal plants to treat their offspring for disease, research by biologists at Emory University shows. Their findings were published online Oct. 6 in the ...
Oct 11, 2010 |
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Research reveals how monarchs fly away home
Monarch butterflies -- renowned for their lengthy annual migration to and from Mexico -- complete an even more spectacular journey home than previously thought.
Jul 26, 2010 |
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As monarch butterflies journey north, gardeners can help protect species, researcher says
It has been a hard winter for Monarch butterflies, according to Chip Taylor, director of Monarch Watch at the University of Kansas. Taylor said that low temperatures, storms and habitat destruction have all threatened the ...
May 10, 2010 |
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Milkweed's evolutionary approach to caterpillars: Counter appetite with fast repair
The adage that your enemies know your weaknesses best is especially true in the case of plants and predators that have co-evolved: As the predators evolve new strategies for attack, plants counter with their own unique defenses.
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Jul 22, 2008 |
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