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Rutgers Expert Can Discuss Invasive Plants in N.J. and Alternatives

June 10, 2020 sarah Jonas Agriculture, Backyards, Butterflies, Environment, Flora, Food, Food Webs, Forests, Habitats, Homeowners, Invasive, Invasive Plants, Invasive Species, Natural Resources, New Jersey, New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station, NJ, Ornamental plants, plants, Pollinators, Predators, Rutgers, Rutgers Cooperative Extension of Middlesex County, Rutgers University-New Brunswick, Seeds, Wildlife

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Human handling stresses young monarch butterflies

April 15, 2020 sarah Jonas Butterflies, Monarch butterfiles

Every year thousands of monarch butterflies are caught, tagged and released during their fall migration by citizen scientists helping to track their movements. But how do the monarchs themselves feel about being handled by humans?

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NUS discovery: Butterflies can acquire new scent preferences and pass these on to their offspring

February 3, 2020 sarah Jonas Behaviour, Butterflies, Traits

Two studies from the National University of Singapore demonstrate that insects can learn from their previous experiences and adjust their future behaviour for survival and reproduction.

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Beating the Heat in the Living Wings of Butterflies

January 28, 2020 sarah Jonas 0 Comments Butterflies, Entomology, Nanostructures, OPTICS

Columbia engineers and Harvard biologists discover that butterflies have specialized behaviors and wing scales to protect the living parts of their wings. The nanostructures found in the wing scales could inspire the design of radiative-cooling materials to help manage excessive heat conditions; the sensory network in the wings could inspire the design of advanced flying machines.

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Persistence pays off with first images of butterfly eggs

October 21, 2019 sarah Jonas 0 Comments Butterflies, Climate Change

Kim Moss, assistant professor of art and visual culture and coordinator of the biological and premedical illustration program at Iowa State University, is the first person to shoot video and photos of where the Parnassius clodius butterfly lays its eggs — a missing piece of the puzzle that helps explain its link to climate change.