Garden varieties: how attractive are recommended garden plants to butterflies? [PDF]
, 2015 One way the public can engage in insect conservation is through wildlife gardening, including the growing of insect-friendly flowers as sources of nectar. However, plant varieties differ in the types of insects they attract.
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Strategic Variation in Male Courtship Persistence in the Butterfly Eurema hecabe
Ecology and Evolution, Volume 15, Issue 12, December 2025.Male Eurema hecabe butterflies adjust their mate‐searching strategy to match female receptivity. Early in the morning, when most females eclose, males focus on locating freshly emerged, immobile females; later, they invest more time courting older, flying females while still searching for tenerals.
Sanni A. Silvasti, Darrell J. Kemp
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Aestivation in Pieris brassicae (Lepidoptera: Pieridae): Implications for parasitism [PDF]
European Journal of Entomology, 2001 Only in the southern part of the Iberian Peninsula the large white butterfly Pieris brassicae was recorded to pass the summer in pupal aestivation, induced by long-day photoperiods. It is not clear why this photoperiodic response is regionally restricted. We investigated whether the change of life history in P.
Spieth, Hubert, Schwarzer, E
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Seasonal occurrence of three Lepidoptera on broccoli and effectiveness of planting date as a pest management tool in southeastern New Brunswick [PDF]
, 1998 L'abondance saisonnière de trois lépidoptères ravageurs du brocoli (Brassica oleracea var. italica), la fausse-teigne des crucifères, Plutella xylostella [Lepidoptera : Plutellidae], la piéride du chou, Pieris rapae [Lepidoptera : Pieridae], et la fausse-
LeBlanc, P.V. +2 more
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Additions to the Lepidoptera fauna of Omsk and Novosibirsk Regions, Russia
Acta Biologica SibiricaThe article provides a list of 23 species from the Chimabachidae, Pieridae, Nymphalidae, Geometridae, Notodontidae, Erebidae, Noctuidae families from Omsk and Novosibirsk Regions in West Siberia. Three species – Pseudobaptria corydalaria (Graeser, 1889),
Svyatoslav A. Knyazev, Vadim V. Ivonin
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Preliminary Test of Agri-Environmental Scheme Implementation in Farmland in Northern Slope of Mount Slamet [PDF]
, 2017 An Agri-Environmental Scheme (AES) was designed to enhance flower availability in crops using local wild plants. The goals of this research were to determine the impact of four wild plants on three cash corps, focusing on the diversity and abundance of ...
Sudiana, E. (Eming), Widhiono, I. (Imam)
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Herbivores induce plant chemical defenses based on the identity of their attacking parasitoid
Oikos, Volume 2025, Issue 12, December 2025.Many parasitoids increase plant fitness by decreasing herbivore feeding damage. Solitary parasitoids (where only one individual completes development per host) generally cause their hosts to feed less than unparasitized herbivores, reducing pressure on plants to induce chemical defense production.
Ryan L. Paul +3 more
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Journal of Threatened Taxa, 2009 Dalma Wildlife Sanctuary is located 10km from Jamshedpur in Jharkhand, India. The species composition and seasonal variation of butterflies was analyzed in this sanctuary over the course of 2 years.
S.K. Verma
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Notes on Shifting Distribution Patterns and Survival of Immature \u3ci\u3eDanaus Plexippus\u3c/i\u3e (Lepidoptera: Danaidae) on the Food Plant \u3ci\u3eAsclepias Syriaca\u3c/i\u3e [PDF]
, 2017 Abundance and distribution of immature stages of the monarch butterfly, Danaus plexippus, on the food plant Asclepias syriaca were examined at a site in southeastern Wisconsin over one growing season.
Borkin, Susan Sullivan
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Науковий вісник Східноєвропейського національного університету імені Лесі Українки: Серія: Біологічні науки, 2018 У межах м. Буська та його околиць зареєстровано 31 вид денних метеликів із родин Papilionidae, Pieridae і Nimphalidae. Встановлено біотопічну приуроченість, трофічні зв’язки гусені, періоди льоту імаго, особливості зимівлі та розвитку окремих видів.
Vadim Tepliuk, Natali Kubat
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