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WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 2009
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NEWS ABOUT: butterflies

butterflies stories: 4 news summaries

(Newser) - Walking in DC last summer, Dan Southerland felt a butterfly land on his shoulder—where it stayed perched for the next few hours, as he ducked first into a photo store to document his fluttery friend, then into a steakhouse, and finally on a taxi ride to his suburban home,... More »

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insects • butterflies • friendship

55M Monarchs Can't Be Wrong

Internal clock of 1-ounce butterfly
sheds light on
human sense of time

Feb 11, 08 4:58 PM CST
(Newser) - The 1-ounce monarch butterfly may have a thing or two to teach us: Each year, some 55 million monarchs make a 4,000-mile multigenerational journey from Canada to Mexico, returning to the same forest, often the same tree, without relying on GPS. How? The insects rely on a unique internal... More »

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migration • genes • insects • monarch butterflies • butterflies • biological clock

Mexican Aid to Protect Monarchs

Calderon promises funds to stem illegal logging in butterflies' habitat

Nov 26, 07 6:10 AM CST
(Newser) - The famous migrating monarch butterflies have a new ally in Mexican President Felipe Calderon, who yesterday said he would devote $4.6 million more to the central Mexican reserve where the butterflies hibernate—and crack down on the illegal logging that threatens the insects' habitat. Calderon hopes the measure will... More »

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endangered species • global warming • Mexico • tourism • Felipe Calderon • migration • monarch butterflies • butterflies

Butterfly Evolves in Blink of Eye

Parasite forces hyper-speed adaptation in male blue moon butterflies

Jul 13, 07 8:20 AM CDT
(Newser) - One of the fastest evolutionary changes ever observed has been witnessed by scientists studying butterflies in the South Pacific, the BBC reports. Blue Moon butterflies managed to fight off a deadly parasitic bacteria by developing suppressor genes to fight the bacteria in just six years. Hard-hit males rebounded from 1%... More »

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evolution • science • nature • butterflies

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