Scientists of the Biology Centre, Czech Academy of Sciences, in collaboration with University of Liverpool have found the ...

Pyrrolizidine alkaloids are as bitter and toxic as they are hard to pronounce. They're produced by several different types of ...

AZAR: A lot of groups, in fact, just appeared during this period - bees and other pollinators and even the beginning of lepidoptera or butterflies. DANIEL: Flowering plants and insects, they evolved ...

University of Florida students returned from spring break several weeks ago with the hopes of business as usual to finish out ...

Bella moths (Utetheisa ornatrix) have uniquely adapted to not only consume these substances but also utilize them as a ...

It, too, requires mowing only twice a year. And butterflies love it. "Your lawn becomes a nursery for Lepidoptera," he said. "And birds eat the seeds." Native plants are best for the environment ...

The technical term for such a facility is a lepidopterarium (lep-ih-dop-ter-AIR-ee-um), an abridgment of the family name combining butterfly, Lepidoptera, and terrarium; the qualities of a terrarium ...

Her distinctive prose and sharp eye were tuned to an outsider’s frequency, telling us about ourselves in essays that are ...

The Museum’s Lepidoptera collection is one of the oldest, largest and certainly the most type rich. The collection contains 12.5 million pinned specimens and one million papered specimens housed in 80 ...

Our insect collection has two strengths: Great Basin Lepidoptera (moths and butterflies) and Neotropical Lepidoptera and their associated parasitoids. Dating back to 1890, the collection contains ...

Rehbein has been accepted for an internship in Gamboa, Panama, working with Dr. Owen McMillan at the Smithsonian Tropical ...

"In the summer months the butterflies take centre stage, parading their psychedelic colours and performing their astonishing aerobatics. The moths are more nocturnal, ghostly creatures, often ...