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From:The Literary Review (Vol. 59, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedYou'll always be a thing of sun-dazzle and sweetness soft as fingertips, suckling nectar and tuned to bliss-- No butterfly will be gale-torn, wasp-stabbed, clawed or pinned--not while I inhale your hair, listening What...
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From:Prairie Schooner (Vol. 88, Issue 2)Unexpected movement-- a suddenness where nothing is as it seems, wings dotted with owl eyes, ears on furry tips How they feed on our secretions: sweat, saliva, tears I imagine them on the waters surface, sucking the sea...
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From:The Literary Review (Vol. 64) Peer-ReviewedOlivia McCannon is an English poet and translator. Her collection, Exactly My Own Length, was shortlisted for the Seamus Heaney Centre Prize and won the 2012 Fenton Aldeburgh First Collection Prize. Her translations from...
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From:CHOICE: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries (Vol. 48, Issue 12)48-6896 QL548 MARC Glassberg, Jeffrey. Butterflies of North America. Sterling Publishing Co., 2011. 202p index ISBN 9781402786204 pbk, $12.95 This attractive book was written by the author of the excellent...
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From:Endangered Species Bulletin (Vol. 29, Issue 1)The Karner blue butterfly (Lycaeides melissa samuelis) has been endangered primarily by habitat loss, much of which has been due to urbanization and wildfire prevention (Andow et al. 1994). The lack of wildfires has...
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From:Evolution (Vol. 50, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedIntrasexual and intersexual selection in the eastern black swallowtail butterfly is investigated. Sibling males are used, with the appearance of one being altered to make it resemble a mimetic female. After being...
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From:Science (Vol. 269, Issue 5232) Peer-ReviewedTufts University engineers suggest that the scales that form the colorful patterns on butterfly wings may regulate the insects' body temperature. The scales can reflect or absorb sunlight, and small changes in the scales...
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From:PLoS ONE (Vol. 7, Issue 5) Peer-ReviewedAuthor(s): Jennifer Hoyal Cuthill * , Michael Charleston Introduction The Neotropical butterfly genus Heliconius (Nymphalidae, Heliconiinae) is highly diverse, with 39 species [1], [2], many of which can be...
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From:PLoS ONE (Vol. 8, Issue 5) Peer-ReviewedAuthor(s): Ashley Bear *, Antónia Monteiro * Introduction In adaptive phenotypic plasticity, a single genotype produces alternative phenotypes in response to different environments, and each of these phenotypes...
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From:Evolution (Vol. 49, Issue 5) Peer-ReviewedA cross-taxonomic comparison of resources allocated to reproductive reserves at adult eclosion reveals that females belonging to polyandrous species receive more ejaculate material and allocate proportionally less of...
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From:Evolution (Vol. 48, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedRestriction-site analysis of mitochondrial DNA was used to categorize genetic population structure and genetic affinities within the Papillo machaon species group. The phylogenetic links between species in this subgroup...
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From:Tribulus (Vol. 18) Peer-ReviewedA great number of adult nocturnal moth species belonging to many different families are attracted to artificial light, particularly ultraviolet light. The phenomenon is so well known that light trapping has, for more...
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From:Journal of NanomaterialsPeer-ReviewedWe calculated diffraction efficiencies of grating structures inspired by Morpho butterfly wings by using a rigorous coupled-wave analysis method. The geometrical effects, such as grating width, period, thickness, and...
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From:PLoS ONE (Vol. 6, Issue 8) Peer-ReviewedBackground The many components of conservation through biodiversity development of a large complex tropical wildland, Area de Conservacion Guanacaste (ACG), thrive on knowing what is its biodiversity and natural...
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From:PLoS ONE (Vol. 5, Issue 11) Peer-ReviewedBackground Past and current range or spatial expansions have important consequences on population genetic structure. Habitat-use expansion, i.e. changing habitat associations, may also influence genetic population...
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From:PLoS ONE (Vol. 11, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedThe biodiversity of the Southern Balkans, part of the Mediterranean global biodiversity hot-spot, is threatened by land use intensification and abandonment, the latter causing forest encroachment of formerly open...
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From:PeerJ (Vol. 8) Peer-ReviewedBackground Studies evaluating bacteria in insects can provide information about host-microorganism-environment interactions. The gut microbial community has a profound effect on different physiological functions of...
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From:PLoS ONE (Vol. 7, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedA diverse assemblage of pollinators, such as bees, beetles, flies, and butterflies, will often visit a single plant species. However, evaluating the effect of several insects on fruit and seed production is difficult in...
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From:PLoS ONE (Vol. 7, Issue 6) Peer-ReviewedAuthor(s): Viktoriia Radchuk 1 , * , Michiel F. WallisDeVries 2 , 3 , Nicolas Schtickzelle 1 Introduction The development of metapopulation theory [1] has contributed significantly to conservation practice for...
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From:Nature (Vol. 457, Issue 7232) Peer-ReviewedConserv. Lett. 2, 45-51 (2009) Many species are edging northwards in response to climate change, among them the UK-resident butterflies marbled white (Melanargia galathea) and small skipper (Thymelicus sylvestris)....