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*Littlest Butterfly* - Discover December 2005	The Sinai baton blue butterfly, with a wingspan no wider than a thumbnail, may seem like an insignificant creature. It lives only on mountainside patches of wild thyme in an arid corner of the Sinai Peninsula in Egypt called Saint Katherine's Protectorate. But a pair of British scientists think it may be the perfect model for how vulnerable animals will go extinct in the face of rising temperatures.
*Painted Lady Butterflies on the Wing* - UC Davis News & Information March 28, 2005	Millions of painted lady butterflies invaded central California airspace Monday as a massive migration from the desert began to hit its stride. The insects are on their way from their winter grounds on the Mexican border to the Central Valley and foothills, where they will breed.
*Atala butterfly* - News-Press.com July 16, 2006	The distinctive red, black and blue colors of the now-rare atala butterfly, a native of southeast Florida, are not distinctive enough to confirm it as a native to Southwest Florida, where its cultivated appearance at the Calusa Nature Center two years ago caused something of a lepidopteran stir.
*Butterfly Researcher, Fearing His Life's Work Gone, Rescues His Specimens in New Orleans* - The Chronicle of Higher Education Sept 23, 2005	Philip J. DeVries has spent more than half his life collecting butterflies in tropical forests all over the world. When he was hired last summer as an associate professor here at the University of New Orleans, he found more than a place to house his collection of specimens and a laboratory where he could process years of raw data. For the first time in his life, he says, he found a city he could stand to call home. Until three weeks ago, that is, when he joined the exodus of hundreds of thousands of people from New Orleans in advance of Hurricane Katrina.
*Public Input Sought on Plan to Conserve Endangered Butterfly In Northern Indiana* - US Fish & Wildlife Service Sep 22, 2005	The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is seeking public input on a draft plan to conserve the endangered Karner blue butterfly as part of a ?Safe Harbor Agreement.? A plan submitted by The Nature Conservancy for restoration activities for the butterfly is available for public comment, along with an application by TNC for an enhancement of survival permit.
*Butterflies Beat Humans to Photonic Crystals* by Larry O'Hanlon - Discovery News Nov. 18, 2005	African swallowtail butterflies have been found using what was thought to be exclusively human advanced technology: high-efficiency photonic crystals like those of light-emitting diodes, or LEDs.
*Glowing Butterflies Shine With Natural LEDs* by John Roach - National Geographic News 11/17/05	For 30 million years African swallowtail butterflies have dazzled their mates with glowing splashes of color on their wings (see photo). And the process they use to control the flow of light in their wings is strikingly similar to a technology that humans only recently developed, physicists report.
*President Bush to Release Butterflies at Arlington National Cemetery* - US News & World Report 5/17/05	About 100 youth that have lost loved ones will attend the ceremony with their TAPS Mentors (members of the Old Guard) and will release live butterflies prior to the official Memorial Day ceremony, just before President Bush's speech, the IBBA announced today.
*British butterfly popuation is decreasing* - PhysOrg News 7/18/05	Britain is losing a large portion of its butterfly population, with 7 of 10 species declining during the past 25 years, the Independent reported Monday.
*UMMS researcher describes new insights into the migration of butterflies in Neuron* - Univ of Mass Medical School News 5/5/05	In this new work published in the May 5 issue of the journal Neuron, Dr. Reppert and his team discovered that ultraviolet photoreceptors dominate the part of the monarch eye that specializes in polarized light detection.
*First release of Silver-studded Blue butterflies in UK for 10 years* 6/23/05	Silver-studded Blue butterflies are being released in the UK for the first time in 10 years today ( 23 June 2005) in attempt to save the species from extinction.
*Bouquet of butterflies flutters through Alberta* - CBC News 6/30/05	Millions of butterflies are showing up near Calgary, creating a rare treat for spectators.
*Billions of butterflies begin migration* - MSNBC 4/8/05	Painted ladies’ descend on California in droves
*Experts: Monarch butterfly population in jeopardy* - CNN 4/20/05	Monarchs are dying in Mexico. No, not kings and queens, but creatures that are just as majestic -- in the butterfly world.
*Butterfly Migration Could Be Largest Known* - Science Daily 5/20/05	Millions of painted lady butterflies that fluttered into California's Central Valley in the last week of March could be just the advance guard of one of the largest migrations of the species on record, said Arthur Shapiro, a professor and expert on butterflies at UC Davis.
*Amino Acids In Nectar Enhance Butterfly Fecundity: A Long Awaited Link* - Science Daily 2/23/05	The fascinating interactions between flowers and their pollinators have resulted in a spectacular diversity of plants. In order to entice pollinators such as bees, flies or butterflies to visit and successfully pollinate their flowers, plants have evolved intriguing mechanisms and attractants, of which nectar is best known.
*Emory Study Finds Monarch Health Tied To Migration* - Science Daily 3/11/05	Monarch butterflies in eastern North America have one of the longest migrations of any species, with a survival-of-the-fittest trek that can take them thousands of miles from Canada to Central Mexico. A new Emory University study has found that these journeys may be the key to maintaining healthy monarch populations at a time when habitat loss and other environmental issues could curb the ability of the butterflies to make the trip.
*Expanding Forests Darken The Outlook For Butterflies, Study Shows* - Science Daily 7/21/05	Changing environmental conditions in the Canadian Rockies are stifling the mating choices of butterflies in the region, say University of Alberta researchers.
*Female butterflies go for sparkle -- not size -- when choosing to mate* - Science Daily 6/29/05	Size doesn't matter, at least not the size of the eyespots on a male butterfly's wings when female butterflies consider potential mates.
*Gap 'encourages children to kill butterflies'* - News-Telegraph 5/22/05	The company has put up posters and window displays in Gap Kids stores, telling children how to make nets used to catch butterflies for a "summer adventure".
*Butterfly Monitoring Data May Save Butterflies from Spray* - Chicago Wilderness Magazine Spring 2005	A December meeting of groups discussing gypsy moth control in Illinois left conservationists from the Butterfly Monitoring Network (BMN) hopeful that the state will be able to use a benign alternative to the bacterial treatment it has been using to check the spread of gypsy moths.
*Butterfly escapes endangered species net* - High Country News 1/24/05	New Mexico community creates its own conservation plan
*Butterflies Flash 'Eyes' to Cheat Death* - Discovery Channel News 6/20/05	Butterflies can cheat death with a bluff, scaring away predators by making them believe they are facing larger animals, according to a new study.
*Butterfly Boom Under Way* - Discovery Channel News 4/13/2005	Painted lady butterflies by the billions are pouring out of the Southwest and northern Mexico and invading the rest of North America.