Shedding light on moths: Whiter street lighting attracts more moths, but some like it more than others
Like their more visible cousins the butterflies, moths are undergoing rapid population declines.
Like their more visible cousins the butterflies, moths are undergoing rapid population declines.
Plants & Animals
May 30, 2013
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In a new study, Boston University researchers and collaborators have found that butterflies show signs of being affected by climate change in a way similar to plants and bees, but not birds, in the Northeast United States. ...
Plants & Animals
Feb 12, 2013
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A new study has found that the sensitivity and recovery of UK butterfly populations to extreme drought is affected by the overall area and degree of fragmentation of key habitat types in the landscape.
Ecology
Nov 1, 2012
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Chen Wei-shou, the pioneer of Taiwan butterfly research, remembers being spell-bound when as a boy of six he first saw "a flower that could move". A life-long obsession had begun.
Ecology
Oct 14, 2012
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(Medical Xpress) -- There's a most unusual gym in ecologist Sonia Altizer's lab at the University of Georgia in Athens. The athletes are monarch butterflies, and their workouts are carefully monitored to determine how parasites ...
Plants & Animals
Jun 12, 2012
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The recent mild winter throughout much of the United States was a cause for celebration for many. However, butterfly aficionados shouldn't be joining in the celebration.
Plants & Animals
Apr 20, 2012
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Early snow melt in the Colorado Rocky Mountains initiates two chains of events resulting in population decline in the mormon fritillary butterfly, Speyeria mormonia. One effect of snow melt date was readily detectable, but ...
Ecology
Mar 15, 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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(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 is helping unlock ...
Biotechnology
Jan 30, 2012
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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 ...
Ecology
Feb 8, 2010
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