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Endangered Butterfly Lives Where Fire, Damage Abound
- NC State University
11/13/2002
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It's a paradox of nature: An artillery impact zone on the grounds of Fort Bragg, N.C. - an area so dangerous that only a select few are allowed to enter - is also the home of North Carolina's only endangered butterfly. |
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Extreme Climate Variance Sped Extinction Of Local Butterfly Populations, Researchers Say
- Science daily
5/15/2002
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Ants Pawns In Battle Of Wasps, Butterflies
by Ben Harder
- National Geographic News
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Hapless ants, like mortals caught in a crossfire between competing gods, are exploited in turn by two other insects—a butterfly and a wasp. When the wasp attacks the larval butterfly, it drives the ants to attack each other, turning them into incidental casualties. |
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Green Farming Schemes are Helping Englands Butterflies
- Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
8/6/2002
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New research conducted by Butterfly Conservation has revealed that the Government's agri-environment schemes are helping to slow - and in some cases reverse - the long-term decline in numbers of England's rarer butterfly species. |
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Butterfly therapy: Their color and grace refresh and relax
by Steve Pollick
- The Toledo Blade
5/19/2002
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These gloriously colored, large-winged, delicate creatures are the picture of grace and gentility. Their slow, deep-flapping movement bespeaks a laid-back approach to life. Watching butterflies is therapy akin to watching colorful tropical fish in an aquarium. |
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Virtual migration in tethered flying monarch butterflies reveals their orientation mechanisms
by Henrik Mouritsen* and Barrie J. Frost
- PNAS Online
7/23/2002
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A newly developed flight simulator allows monarch butterflies to fly actively for up to several hours in any horizontal direction while their fall migratory flight direction can be continuously recorded |
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Inestimable Numbers of Monarchs Die in Mexico
by Naomi Mathews
- Suite101.com
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Results of an unusually severe winter storm in overwintering grounds in Mexico |
