Monarch butterflies have long been admired for their sense of direction, as they migrate from Canada and the United States to Mexico. According to new findings from a team of scientists, including researchers from the University ...
Plants & Animals
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Butterflies, bees, and even bats are celebrated as pollinators: creatures that travel from flower to flower to feed, and in the process, help fertilize the plants by spreading pollen. But some of nature's most diverse pollinators ...
Ecology
May 25, 2023
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Scientists studying Eastern North American monarch butterflies (Danaus plexippus) have uncovered a suite of genes that may be involved in driving the butterflies to migrate towards Mexico for the winter. Their research, published ...
Evolution
Mar 31, 2009
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Monarch butterflies have flown south for the winter, but efforts to protect them in Illinois are sticking around.
Plants & Animals
Oct 28, 2020
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(Phys.org) —Could there soon be a summer without the iconic monarch butterfly?
Ecology
Apr 2, 2013
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When the Iowa Monarch Conservation Consortium was formed seven years ago, Iowa State University researchers faced two big questions about reestablishing the milkweed and other wildflowers needed for the iconic butterfly's ...
Plants & Animals
Dec 14, 2022
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Millions of monarch butterflies migrate each fall to a specific cluster of mountain peaks in central Mexico. How exactly they navigate to their winter home, and the way they choose their path, is a topic of great interest ...
Plants & Animals
May 2, 2022
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Experts in Mexico said Tuesday there is a tentative sign of hope for the mass migration of monarch butterflies, whose numbers dropped to their lowest level ever last year.
Ecology
Sep 23, 2014
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The number of Western monarch butterflies overwintering in California rebounded to more than 247,000 a year after fewer than 2,000 appeared, but the tally remained far below the millions that were seen in the 1980s, leaders ...
Plants & Animals
Jan 25, 2022
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The number of monarch butterflies wintering in Mexican forests declined for a second consecutive year, a government official said Monday.
Ecology
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