Diverse nanostructures underlie thin ultra-black scales in butterflies
Nature Communications, 2020 Recently, it has been shown that animals such as jumping spiders, birds, and butterflies have evolved ultra-black coloration comparable to the blackest synthetic materials.
Alexander L. Davis +2 more
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Phylogenomics reveals the evolutionary timing and pattern of butterflies and moths
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2019 Significance Lepidoptera play key roles in many biological systems. Butterflies are hypothesized to have evolved contemporaneously with flowering plants, and moths are thought to have gained anti-bat defenses in response to echolocating predatory bats ...
A. Kawahara +19 more
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Non-random dispersal in the butterfly Maniola jurtina: implications for metapopulation models [PDF]
, 2000 The dispersal patterns of animals are important in metapopulation ecology because they affect the dynamics and survival of populations. Theoretical models assume random dispersal but little is known in practice about the dispersal behaviour of individual
Brake¢eld P. M. +6 more
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The First Records in Illinois of \u3ci\u3eHeliconius Charitonius\u3c/i\u3e (Lepidoptera: Heliconiidae) and \u3ci\u3ePhoebis Agarithe\u3c/i\u3e (Lepidoptera: Pieridae) [PDF]
, 2017 (excerpt) Our key to Illinois butterflies, exclusive of the skippers (Hesperiidae), was published in 1980. It includes those butterflies listed by Irwin and Downey in their 1973 Illinois checklist plus two species,Anaea aidea (Guerin-Meneville ...
McPherson, J. E, Sites, R. W
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Macrostructural Evolution of the Mitogenome of Butterflies (Lepidoptera, Papilionoidea)
Insects, 2022 The mitogenome of the species belonging to the Papilionodea (Lepidoptera) is a double stranded circular molecule containing the 37 genes shared by Metazoa. Eight mitochondrial gene orders are known in the Papilionoidea.
Di Liu +4 more
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Correspondence of butterfly and host plant diversity: Foundation for habitat restoration and conservation [PDF]
, 2019 At a spatial scale, the diversity of butterflies varies with numerous factors including the availability of the host plant species. In parity with this proposition, the correspondence of diversity of butterfly and plant in the background of the ...
Gautam, Aditya +5 more
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Butterflies (Lepidoptera) of the Kameng Protected Area Complex, western Arunachal Pradesh, India
Journal of Threatened Taxa, 2016 The butterflies of the Kameng Protected Area Complex in western Arunachal Pradesh, India, covering the protected areas of Eaglenest Wildlife Sanctuary, Pakke Tiger Reserve and Sessa Orchid Wildlife Sanctuary were surveyed over a 5-year period (2009–2014).
Sanjay Sondhi, Krushnamegh Kunte
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The Capability of Some Butterflies as Carriers of Common Milkweed Pollen [PDF]
, 2017 The common milkweed, Asclepias syriaca L., is remarkably adapted for cross pollination by insects. Its pollen sacs (pollinia) are often found attached to the appendages of bees, wasps, butterflies, and other insects that visit milkweed for its nectar ...
Wilson, Louis F.
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Applied Sciences, 2020 Most butterfly larvae are agricultural pests and forest pests, but butterflies have important ornamental value and the ability to sense and respond to changes in the ecological environment.
Dongjun Xin, Yen-Wei Chen, Jianjun Li
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