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Moths cloaked in colour

Moths cloaked in colour

— 1 September 11:38

Travellers to the neotropics - the tropical lands of the Americas - might be forgiven for thinking that all of the colourful insects flittering over sunny puddles or among dense forest understory are butterflies. In fact, many are not. Some are moths that have reinvented themselves as butterflies, converging on the daytime niche typically dominated by their less hairy relatives. Now, a new revision of the taxonomic relationships among one such group of insects, the subfamily Dioptinae, sheds light on the diversity of tropical moth species and presents a unique story of parallel evolution…


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Phaeochlaena hazara belongs in the 'tiger strip' mimicry complex and is widely distributed in the Amazon, (c) James MillerMoths cloaked in colour

— 1 September 11:38

Travellers to the neotropics - the tropical lands of the Americas - might be forgiven for thinking that all of the colourful insects flittering over sunny puddles or among dense forest…

Maculinea arion underside in Somerset, UK, (c) David Simcox, Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, UKResearchers publish the discoveries that saved Maculinea arion in the UK

— 16 June 00:02

On the 25th anniversary of the project that brought the large blue butterfly back from extinction in the United Kingdom, ecologists are for the first time publishing the decades of…

This is a picture of the new moth species, Lithophane leeae, (c) Bruce Walsh, the University of ArizonaBiologist discovers pink-winged moth in Chiracahua Mountains

— 10 June 08:36

University of Arizona biologist Bruce Walsh has identified a new species of moth in southern Arizona. Normally, this is not a big deal. The region is one of the most biologically rich…

Oliver found that the eyespots of some butterflies, such as this pair of mating Bicyclus anynana, serve to both attract mates and ward off predators, (c) William PielSexy or repulsive? Butterfly wings can be both to mates and predators

— 2 April 13:55

Butterflies seem able to both attract mates and ward off predators using different sides of their wings, according to new research by Yale University biologists. Trying to find the…

Genetic basis for migration

— 31 March 15:00

Scientists studying Eastern North American monarch butterflies (Danaus plexippus) have uncovered a suite of genes that may be involved in driving the butterflies to migrate towards…

Tobacco hornworm moth, Manduca sexta, sucks nectar from its favourite nectar source, the flower of sacred datura, Datura wrightii, (c) Charles Hedgcock RBPHow moths key into the scent of a flower

— 5 March 14:55

Moths need just the essence of a flower's scent to identify it, according to new research from The University of Arizona in Tucson. Although a flower's odour can be composed of hundreds…