Tag: butterflies

A new review in Nature Conservation hails Roger Dennis's Butterfly Biology Systems as an outstanding synthesis that reassembles butterfly ecology ...

A geometric morphometric study of Heliconius butterflies reveals that mating systems and sex-specific reproductive pressures dominate wing shape evolution, while ...

A three-year Italian field trial shows that the functional traits of perennial plant mixtures, not species richness alone, determine weed ...

A new experimental study finds no evidence that female Callophrys xami butterflies prefer males with intact false heads, despite earlier ...

A strictly protected swallowtail butterfly has been documented breeding in southern Italy for the first time, revealing a new host ...

A tribute to the life and scientific legacy of Spanish lepidopterist Enrique García-Barros Saura, whose atlases and biogeographic research transformed ...

A two-year Polish field study shows flowering Canadian goldenrod attracts honey bees and hoverflies while reducing wild bee and butterfly ...

UC San Diego biologists have identified the genetic switch that added a ninth photoreceptor to butterfly eyes, revealing how the ...

A new study shows that routine urban herbicide spraying in Ghana kills the Danaid eggfly butterfly directly and stresses its ...

Europe faces a potential ecological and agricultural crisis as wild pollinators continue to decline at alarming rates, according to a ...