News (Archive) | March 2007

B-files

Maculinea caterpillars do not want to grow up —
— [19 Mar 2007 | 14:30 GMT]
For many years, ecologists from the Centre of Environment and Hydrology (CEH) have investigated the ecology of Maculinea rebeli, a Lycaenid butterfly whose caterpillars live as parasites inside colonies of Myrmica ants, where they feed on regurgitations from the nurse ants. One of the peculiar features of this species’ ecology is that only about 25% of the caterpillars complete development within one year... [Full story]

The European lepidopterological society with a new site —
— [16 Mar 2007 | 9:25 GMT]
The European society for the study of moths and butterflies launched today a new website. Societas Europaea Lepidopterologica was founded in 1976 with the aims of promoting collaboration among the lepidopterists of Europe, Western Asia and North Africa, and of promoting conservation of Lepidoptera and their habitats... [Full story]

Californian butterflies on the Internet —
— [5 Mar 2007 | 1:00 GMT]
One of the largest butterfly databases in the world was opened to the public on 1 March 2007. Since 1972, Professor Arthur Shapiro of the Center for Population Biology and Section of Evolution and Ecology at UC Davis has counted butterflies at sites across northern California from sea level to the tree line, 9,000 feet up in the Sierra Nevada... [Full story]

Butterflies & moths on the WWW | Headlines

Highway shut for butterfly travel
BBC News, UK — 24 March 2007
Taiwan is to close one lane of a major highway to protect more than a million butterflies, which cross the road on their seasonal migration...