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*The hot and cold of butterfly dancing* - Guardian.co.uk 1/2/11	Adult butterflies are highly visual animals, relying on their keen eyesight to locate and identify appropriate mates by looking at and comparing their wing colours and patterns.
*Well-equipped travelers: Monarch butterflies and their sun compass machinery* - Umass Medical School 1/26/11	Steven Reppert, MD is recognized as a pioneer in the effort to understand the monarch butterflys spectacular annual mass migration from eastern North America to central Mexico
*Gender-bending butterflies observed in Yale study* by Kristofor Husted - Medill Reports 1/14/11	If youre a male butterfly looking to mate, locate the females raised in cooler temperatures and you can sit back and let them woo you. Yale University researchers identified this gender reversal behavior in a strain of the Bicyclus anynana, a butterfly found in Malawi. This is the first species where role reversal has been observed
*Scientists track butterfly migration from U.S. to Mexico* by Russell Wilde - News8 - Austin, TX 10/17/09	Interesting things, like how monarch butterflies travel thousands of miles to winter in Mexico, usually bringing swarms of orange speckles to Central Texas skies. This year, however, they took a detour.
*Hungry butterflies swarm Austin* by Mary Ann Roser - Austin Statesman (TX) 10/15/09	That swarm of dark-looking butterflies in Austin this afternoon? Its not Armageddon, just time for the American snout butterfly to tie on the feed bag, according to experts.
*Butterflies in bee-line to Mexico: Winter monarch nesting zone has become huge draw* by Meg Jones - Milwaukee Journal Sentinel 10/13/09	In the pretty town of Angangueo, which boomed until the nearby mine closed down several decades ago, monarchs are big. They're painted on the sides of buildings and taxicabs. A monarch festival is held every winter.
*Monarch Mania at Quivera National Wildlife Refuge* by Steve Gilliland - The Kansan.com 10/10/09	Known as Monarch Mania, this 13th annual event at Quivera was a citizen scientist project, meaning volunteers were used to net and tag monarch butterflies
*DaVinci students tag butterflies, tracking their progress on migratory route* by Trent Toone - Standard-Examiner (Ogden, Utah) 10/2/09	The students, ranging from sophomores to seniors at DaVinci Academy of Science and the Arts, tagged little stickers on the beautiful wings of monarch butterflies, then set them free in hopes that the colorful insects would reach Southern California. The DaVinci students hope students at partnering schools in Southern California will find the tagged butterflies so their migratory progress and data can be tracked and recorded.
*UK Butterfly invasion continues into autumn* - SurfBirds News 10/3/09	Britain is experiencing an autumn invasion of butterflies, long after butterfly migration from Europe has usually ceased. It comes at the end of a summer which has seen the biggest migration of butterflies into the UK for more than decade.
*Butterfly mystery* by BRIAN NEARING - Times Union, Albany, NY 10/1/09	It's been 17 years since the tiny Karner blue butterfly, a resident and symbol of rare inland pine barrens in the Capital Region, went on the federal endangered species list. Now, despite years of efforts to save the butterflies, including the creation of a 3,000-acre preserve in Albany County to protect their habitat, their numbers continue to dwindle.
*Butterfly GPS (Photos, Diagram) Migration Secrets* by Gene Byrd - The National Ledger 9/28/09	GPS has saved many drivers from getting lost - does a butterfly have a built in GPS system? Scientists have finally located the 24-hour clock that guides the migration of monarch butterflies. According to an Associated Press Science report, "Antenna sensors turn out to be key to Monarch butterflies finding their way to Mexico."
*Where the Monarchs Hang in Mexico* by Silvia Uribe - Santa Barbara Independent 9/27/09	Here in Goleta, as most know, we have a monarch sanctuary, officially known as the Coronado Butterfly Preserve, on the Ellwood Mesa, close to the bluffs.
*Butterfly antennas key to navigating in migration* by RANDOLPH E. SCHMID - AP 9/24/09	Millions of Monarch butterflies migrate to Mexico for the winter and scientists have long speculated on how the insects find their way. Turns out, their antennas are the key. How do we know? Well, researchers painted butterfly antennas black, and the insects got lost
*Monarch migration underway* by Theresa Friday - Santa Rosa Gazette September 29, 2009	Every fall, a magical event takes place in the animal world. A small, yet amazing, creature may be traveling over your own head right now or visiting your backyard on a mystical journey home. The annual monarch butterfly migration to Mexico is underway
*UGA researcher discovers change in butterfly ratios* by JUSTIN CREWS - redandblack.com 9/30/09	Andy Davis - a doctoral candidate in the Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources - discovered that female to male ratios for Monarch butterflies east of the Rocky Mountains have been gradually changing in favor of the males.
*Vast butterfly migration reported in the Bay Area* by Lisa M. Krieger - Mercury News 3/31/2009	Like autumn leaves blowing across a spring landscape, millions of small orange butterflies are fluttering through the Bay Area.
*Young Butterflies Trick Ants Into Raising Them* - Discovery Channel Feb. 4, 2009	Flitting across your yard, butterflies seem friendly and harmless. But at least one type has learned to raise its young as parasites, tricking ants into feeding it and giving special treatment.
*It's In His Smell: Female Moths Can Discern Male's Ancestry, Age And Possibly Reproductive Fitness From His Smell* - ScienceDaily Mar. 9, 2009	A female moth selects a mate based on the scent of his pheromones.
*Can Moths Or Butterflies Remember What They Learned As Caterpillars?* - ScienceDaily Mar. 8, 2008	Scientists at Georgetown University recently discovered that a moth can indeed remember what it learned as a caterpillar.
*Pigmentation In Some Butterfly Wings Created By Nanostructures* - ScienceDaily January 22, 2008	Nowhere in nature is there so much beautiful colour as on the wings of butterflies. Scientists, however, are still baffled about exactly how these colours are created.
*Distribution Of A Species Of Butterfly Predicted Using Geometric Variables* - ScienceDaily July 18, 2008	Biologists have recently explored the distribution of the butterfly Iolana iolas, one of the endangered species in the Madrid region whose population dynamics are determined by its host plant.
*Web-spinning Spiders And 'Wannabe Butterflies' Head To Space Shuttle* - ScienceDaily November 11, 2008	The experiment will chart the life cycle of butterflies in the low gravity of space -- from larvae to pupa to butterfly to egg -- and compare it with that of earthbound butterflies
*Masters Of Disguise: Secrets Of Nature's 'Great Pretenders' Revealed* - ScienceDaily Feb. 26, 2008	The mocker swallowtail butterfly, Papilio dardanus, is unusual because it emerges from its chrysalis with one of a large number of different possible wing patterns and colors.
*Mutualism by Natural Selection: Imitation is Not Just Flattery for Amazon Butterfly Species* - ScienceDaily Dec. 8, 2008	A new article considers an aspect of the natural world that, like survival of the fittest individual, is explained by natural selection: namely, mutualism -- an interaction between species that has benefits for both.
*Brown Argus Butterfly Sees Positive Effects of Climate Change* - ScienceDaily June 9, 2008	Global warming is generally thought to have a negative affect on the habitats of many animals and plants. Not for the Brown Argus butterfly, however. This insect seems to be bucking the trend and expanding its numbers quicker and more effectively, according to new research.