Her Majesty’s Desert Throne: The Ecology of Queen Butterfly Oviposition on Mojave Milkweed Host Plants [PDF]
Insects, 2020 Butterfly–host plant relationships can inform our understanding of ecological and trophic interactions that contribute to ecosystem function, resiliency, and services.
Steven M. Grodsky +3 more
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Ecology of the Western Queen Butterfly Danaus gilippus thersippus (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae) in the Mojave and Sonoran Deserts [PDF]
Insects, 2020 The purpose of this study was to assess the ecological knowledge surrounding the western queen butterfly, Danaus gilippus thersippus (H. Bates). Specifically, our objectives were to synthesize existing data and knowledge on the ecology of the queen and ...
Leslie Saul-Gershenz +2 more
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Neo Sex Chromosomes, Colour Polymorphism and Male-Killing in the African Queen Butterfly, Danaus chrysippus (L.) [PDF]
Insects, 2019 Danaus chrysippus (L.), one of the world’s commonest butterflies, has an extensive range throughout the Old-World tropics. In Africa it is divided into four geographical subspecies which overlap and hybridise freely in the East African Rift: Here ...
David A.S. Smith +6 more
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Mimicry in viceroy butterflies is dependent on abundance of the model queen butterfly. [PDF]
Commun Biol, 2019 Mimics should not exist without their models, yet often they do. In the system involving queen and viceroy butterflies, the viceroy is both mimic and co-model depending on the local abundance of the model, the queen. Here, we integrate population surveys,
Prudic KL +4 more
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Prevalence of monarch (Danaus plexippus) and queen (Danaus gilippus) butterflies in West Texas during the fall of 2018 [PDF]
BMC Ecology, 2020 Background The monarch butterfly (Danaus plexippus) is a conspicuous insect that has experienced a drastic population decline over the past two decades.
Matthew Z. Brym +5 more
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Genomics, Population Divergence, and Historical Demography of the World's Largest and Endangered Butterfly, The Queen Alexandra's Birdwing [PDF]
Genome Biology and Evolution, 2023 The world's largest butterfly is the microendemic Papua New Guinean Ornithoptera alexandrae. Despite years of conservation efforts to protect its habitat and breed this up-to-28-cm butterfly, this species still figures as endangered in the IUCN Red List ...
Eliette L. Reboud +5 more
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The Queen Butterfly, Danaus Chrysippus (L.) (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae) at Khartoum, Sudan. [PDF]
Egyptian Academic Journal of Biological Sciences. A, Entomology, 2012 Within the region of East and Central Africa, the aposematic butterfly D. chrysippus is characterized by unusual ecology, due to the co-occurrence of polymorphism, mimicry and sex ratio distortion.
Eihab Idris, S. S. H. Hassan
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DRAG QUEEN CULTURE: THE INTERACTION OF FEMINITY AND THE MALE EGO IN D. H. HONG’S PLAY "M. BUTTERFLY"
LITERARY PROCESS: methodology, names, trends, 2022 The study's relevance is due to the development and dissemination of works on the culture of a drag queen, as it is understood not only in queer research and literary exploration but also in fiction. The article analyses the interaction of femininity and
A. Gaidash, A. Mykhailiuk
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Resistance and Tolerance to Imperfectly Specialized Parasites: Milkweed Butterflies and Their Protozoan Parasites [PDF]
Ecology and EvolutionUnderstanding host specificity and cross‐species transmission of parasites is crucial for predicting the risk and consequences of parasite spillover. We experimentally examined these dynamics in two closely related, sympatric, milkweed butterfly hosts ...
Maria L. Müller‐Theissen +2 more
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On Linnaeus’ (1764) butterfly type materials missing from the Museum of Evolution of Uppsala University (Section of Zoology) and the case of Papilio hermione [PDF]
Nota LepidopterologicaWe briefly analyse the history of Queen Ulrika’s and of Linnaeus’ butterfly collections. We show that the type materials of some species were likely moved from Queen Ulrika’s to Linnaeus’ collection before 1803. We provide evidence that Honey and Scoble (
Emilio Balletto +4 more
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