butterflies
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California’s Brutal Storms May Have Killed Over Half Its Monarch Butterflies
California has been enduring a winter of wild weather, and it’s not just humans that have suffered for it. A new count of monarchs in the state turned up a disturbing low number of the endangered butterflies.
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A Second Butterfly Defender Has Been Found Dead In Mexico
Two butterfly activists have been found dead in Mexico in less than a week.
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Guy Documents New Jerk Species Of Butterfly
My university transcripts will plainly show I nearly failed Latin (twice), but if there’s one thing I’m certain of it’s that Adelotypa annulifera translates roughly to “ungrateful dickhead”. That’s the scientific name of an Amazonian butterfly whose behaviours have finally been documented by entomologist Phil Torres and biologist Aaron Pomerantz, revealing what horrendous manners these…
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This Artist ‘Paints’ With Nanoparticles Inspired By Butterfly Wings
Combining art and science comes naturally to Kate Nichols. The colours in her pieces don’t come from pigment, but from tiny silver nanoparticles suspended in the paint. She makes them herself, as artist-in resident in the University of California, Berkeley’s nanotechnology research group.