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Moths and butterflies: number of species

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Славян, 31.08.2010 20:27

Can you tell me why there are significantly fewer diurnal butterflies than nocturnal ones?Day - 30,000, and night-150,000.

This post was edited by Slavyan-02.09.2010 16: 04

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02.09.2010 7:01, Сергей-Д

have you read what you've written? where do these numbers come from?

02.09.2010 16:01, Славян

Sorry, I got it all mixed up.

This post was edited by Slavyan - 02.09.2010 16: 03

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