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These Butterflies Can Live 25 Times Longer Than Their Relatives. They Might Provide Insights Into Healthy Aging in Humans

Their unusual diet of pollen—rather than nectar—might partially explain why members of the Heliconius genus live so long, up ...

An unusual strategy helps some tropical butterflies live 25 times longer than their relatives

A tropical butterfly from the Heliconius tribe has evolved to live a maximum lifespan of 348 days, nearly 25 times longer ...

Vulnerable butterfly recorded in the Botanical Garden at Uppsala

The Botanical Garden in Uppsala was recently visited by animal ecology researchers, who conducted a BioBlitz to find, ...
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Common butterfly turns out to be three different species

Scientists discovered that a familiar tropical butterfly is actually three separate species hiding in plain sight for more ...
Smithsonian Magazine

Where Did Butterflies Come From? This Scientist Is On the Case

Delias sambawana, a butterfly that hails from Indonesia, at the Florida Museum of Natural History. Florida Museum photo by Kristen Grace and phylogeny by Hillis, Zwickl, and Gutell When Akito Kawahara ...

Outdoors: A place in Chester County where monarch butterflies rule

Although the monarch butterfly is not formally listed under the United States’ Endangered Species Act, it’s nonetheless ...

This single well-known and widespread butterfly is actually three species in disguise

The tropical rainforests of Central and South America are among the most biodiverse places on Earth. Costa Rica alone is home to half a million species, five times more than exist in the entire ...