‘Supergene’ helps butterflies mimic wing patterns to stay safe
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First Nature Reserve to Record 10,000 Species in UK–Thanks to Moth That Looks Like a Wasp
River at Wicken Fen National Nature Reserve, Cambridgeshire, England By Naturenet CC BY-SA 3.0 A nature reserve has…
This Mysterious Creature Has the Most Chromosomes on Earth
Photograph of the Atlas blue butterfly, taken by Roger Vila, senior author on this paper. Credit: Dr. Roger…
Butterflies With Broken Wings Experience ‘Flying’ With Some Help From A Gardner
Kelly Eden, a model and artist, started raising monarch butterflies last year. This summer, she released 10 healthy…
‘Butterfly’ Explores 4,000 Years of Our Fascination with Lepidoptera in Art and Science — Colossal
Since time immemorial, we have been awed by the ornate patterns, metamorphosis, and migrations of butterflies and moths.…
Monarch butterfly swarms drawn to invasive weeds near Nannup in WA
An “abundance” of butterflies has taken over the West Australian town of Nannup, delighting visitors and locals in…
New $90 million research facility opens at CSIRO to house specimens collected over 150 years
Millions of irreplaceable biodiversity specimens have been re-homed at a new CSIRO facility that the agency says will…
‘Magical’: butterfly sightings across the UK this summer | Environment
“I live in the countryside and it’s been an incredible year for butterflies – we’ve seen marbled whites,…