By ANN BROKELMAN Building on previous summers, I’ve been really enjoying working with bugs, specifically butterflies and moths. I’ve invested a...
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Butterfly numbers in the UK appear to be at the lowest on record after a wet spring and summer dampened their chances of mating. This comes on top of a long and worrying trend of decline. To find out what’s going on and what we can all do to help butterflies cope with extreme weather patterns, Phoebe Weston speaks to Dr Richard Fox, the head of science for the charity Butterfly Conservation, and to Matthew Hayes, who is part of the Banking on Butterflies project, a collaboration between the Insect Ecology Group at the zoology department in Cambridge University and the Wildlife Trust for Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire and Northamptonshire
By ANN BROKELMAN Building on previous summers, I’ve been really enjoying working with bugs, specifically butterflies and moths. I’ve invested a...
In the animal kingdom, the phenomenon of females killing their mates after mating, though striking, is not uncommon and serves various evolutionary...
The first week of Belize’s September festivities unveiled a tantalising preview of Saturday’s Carnival Road March, with Carnival Mas Bands...
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A dragonfly census will be held between September 18 and 20 at seven biodiversity parks of the Delhi Development Authority. Meanwhile, a butterfly...
A dragonfly census will be held between September 18 and 20 at seven biodiversity parks of the Delhi Development Authority. Meanwhile, a butterfly...
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An invasive insect species known for damaging crops and plants was spotted aboard two Bermuda-bound cruise ships ‒ but the environment department...
An invasive insect species known for damaging crops and plants was spotted aboard two Bermuda-bound cruise ships ‒ but the environment department...
Butterflies can see more of the world than humans, including more colors and the field oscillation direction, or polarization, of light. This special...