Can Cities Help Preserve the Butterflies and the Bees?
Researchers found that urban gardens and allotments provide especially good habitat for pollinator communities.
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Butterflies
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When Scientists Become Storytellers
A new edition of PLoS Biology is dedicated to narrative-driven, peer-reviewed papers, all in the hope of reaching a wider audience and spurring action.
The Butterfly Effect
Southern California's Ellwood Mesa, with nearly 80 acres of protected eucalyptus forest, is a refuge for the vanishing western monarch butterflies during the winter months. But the state's most recent drought has left the future of the forest in jeopardy.
You Can Help Net a Fluttering of Data Points
Making science fun: There's a network of butterfly researchers who eagerly want to know what species you've seen flitting about.
The Ticking Compass Inside a Butterfly
Humankind can learn a lot from the power of circadian clocks and sunlight observation that are child's play to monarch butterflies.
Butterfly Diplomacy: An Immigration Policy for Monarchs
North America's monarch 'is one of the largest of our butterflies and rules a vast domain.' But it's in trouble on both ends of its massive migration.