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Last year august the US Fish and Wildlife Service announced an emergency listing* of the Miami Blue Butterfly (Cyclargus thomasi bethunebakeri) as endangered, “We, the Fish and Wildlife Service (Service), exercise our authority pursuant to section 4(b)(7) of the Endangered Species Act of 1973, as amended (Act), to emergency list the Miami blue butterfly (Cyclargus thomasi bethunebakeri) as ...
Tucked away so that you hardly notice it even passing nearby, a small park in Apollo park somewhere at Milson outskirts, a Palmerston North suburb, being inch by inch turned with hands of its creator and inspired volunteers, into an unordinary, special place for butterflies. Paul Vandenberg was busy with that very doing all last year — he's been working tirelessly till butterflies of all ...
The darkening of the peppered moth (Biston betularia) often met in school textbooks as a case study for adaptation, was confirmed as an accurate example of natural selection, according to a study made by a biologist of the Harvard university together with other scientists. During the Industrial Revolution, English scientists noticed that peppered moths became getting darker and the number of ...
Sandesh Kadur photographer met a giant Atlas moth (Attacus atlas) during his trip through the eastern Himalayas where he headed for to study and shoot the local biodiversity. Early morning while driving somewhere in Arunachal Pradesh he suddenly noticed a “ginormous moth” sitting on a road by a pothole. Once Kadur got out the moth immediately took a defensive posture, spread its wings as ...
Break delayed as much as two weeks, but now everything is OK - you can safely ship the photographs used in this case will have a new system ...
On February 18th Timiryazev State Biological Museum presented a new exhibition “New arrivals”. Over the past few years museum collections were supplied with more than 16000 new showpieces which are selectively shown at the exhibition. The insect collection which is one of the richest in the museum was updated with longhorn beetles and butterflies of the professor N. B. Korostelyov's ...
Descoreba simplex Butler, 1878. Identified by Belyaev E. A., FEBRAS Institute of Biology and Soil Sciences.
Pachyerannis obliquaria. Identified by Vasilenko S. V. Institute of Systematics and Ecology of Animals Siberian Branch of RAS (ISEA SB RAS).
Now comes the final stage of a large database update site. To synchronize the ph of comments and the new base, the ability to download new pictures and comments of the user temporarily. Term launch of a new version of the database and the inclusion of all interactive - no later than 28 February.
Parasitic wasp tracks down the Large White butterfly (Pieris brassicae) female which is ready to lay eggs by its special anti-sex smell that repels males. The wasp hangs on the butterfly and being carried suchwise to the Brussels sprout plants where the butterfly lays eggs. A joint research project* of entomologists at Wageningen University and the Free University of Berlin (Freie Universität ...
Galina, the Synev catalogue says that H. lycaon is rather possible to meet in your lands (Astrakhan region/Kalmykia). If you still seriously doubt, please, let me know and the photo will be published for the website folks could confirm or deny the identifying...
As rightly noted by Alexander in a particular topic, no satirid on site no. There subfamily Satirinae family Nymphalidae. Now intermediate taxa are not shown on the website during the week should start to appear, along with updating the database. But the satire itself, will remain in the Nymphalidae.