A 74-year-old is in a race against time to find a place to house what may be the world’s largest collection of African ...
The trade in rare butterflies—both legal and illegal—spans the planet, from catchers to middlemen to collectors. A catcher on Bacan island, Indonesia, sorts his specimens, which he’ll sell ...
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Where Did Butterflies Come From? This Scientist Is On the CaseHis father, the renowned conceptual artist On Kawara, had introduced him to butterfly collecting early, and Akito had already ...
If you’ve ever thought a curator is just someone that keeps boxes of specimens neat and tidy, Blanca is proof positive that there’s so much more to the job than that. Her love for the butterflies of ...
The holes in this specimen show the passion butterflies have inspired for centuries. In 1906, English naturalist and explorer Albert Stewart Meek was two days deep into the rainforests of New Guinea ...
Finally, in 1999, a cheer went up among butterfly enthusiasts when a photographer discovered 35 specimens in Bahia Honda State Park, which then housed the only wild population of Miami blues — but ...
"It's interesting to reaffirm that what people have been thinking for nearly 100 years is true, that this was a species driven to extinction by human activities," says Felix Grewe, co-director of ...
It involves measuring the body weight of more than 50,000 butterfly specimens over a century to model their decreasing body size in response to climate change. Heat forces butterflies to fly to ...
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