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1,043 results for: Butterflies

  1. Animals

    Big slimy lips are the secret to this fish’s coral diet

    A new imaging study reveals how tubelip wrasses manage to munch on stinging corals.

    By Helen Thompson
  2. Animals

    In Florida, they’re fighting mosquitoes by meddling with their sex lives

    As an alternative to genetically modified mosquitoes, Florida skeeter police are testing one of two strategies that use bacteria to meddle with insect sex lives.

    By Susan Milius
  3. Science & Society

    ‘Specimens’ goes behind the scenes of Chicago’s Field Museum

    The Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago puts seldom-seen specimens on display in a new exhibit to highlight the crucial role of museum objects in scientific research.

    By Howard Wolinsky
  4. Ecosystems

    Long-ignored, high-flying arthropods could make up largest land migrations

    Forget birds. 3.5 trillion insects, spiders and mites a year fly over the southern United Kingdom.

    By Susan Milius
  5. Animals

    Painted lady butterflies’ migration may take them across the Sahara

    The migratory patterns of painted lady butterflies are largely unknown. Now scientists have found evidence that some may migrate across the Sahara.

    By Sarah Zielinski
  6. Genetics

    Gene gives mice and chipmunks their pinstripes

    A recycled regulator paints on rodents’ light stripes.

    By Tina Hesman Saey
  7. Life

    How to make a fish face, and other photo contest winners

    The tiny face of a 4-day-old zebrafish embryo snags the top spot in microscopy photography contest.

    By Emily DeMarco
  8. Ecosystems

    ‘Citizen Scientist’ exalts ordinary heroes in conservation science

    Journalist Mary Ellen Hannibal’s “Citizen Scientist” tells tales of ordinary people contributing to science.

    By Laurel Hamers
  9. Animals

    Evidence piles up for popular pesticides’ link to pollinator problems

    Neonicotinoid pesticides linked to population declines in California butterflies and wild bee extinctions in Great Britain.

    By Helen Thompson
  10. Life

    CRISPR inspires new tricks to edit genes

    CRISPR/Cas9 has been a rockstar gene-editing tool for just four years and it’s already being tweaked to do more things better.

    By Tina Hesman Saey
  11. Animals

    Readers ponder animal flight

    Readers respond to the June 11, 2016, issue of Science News with questions on cormorants, butterflies, virus-sensing genes and more.

    By Science News Staff
  12. Animals

    Bacteria make male lacewings disappear

    Scientists have tracked down why some green lacewings in Japan produce only female offspring: Bacteria kill off all the males early in life.

    By Sarah Zielinski