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@jby@ecoevo.social
2025-11-17 15:19:04

Nifty preprint with an experiment coevolving Brassica rapa with pollinating, herbivorous butterflies. With bumblebee co-pollinators or heat stress added, the plants evolved stronger anti-herbivore defense; with both bees and heat, they evolved... to attract butterflies?
doi.org/10.1101/2025.11.06.686

Figure 1 from the linked preprint, showing PCA of phenotypic change in the plants and butterflies. Caption: Phenotypic divergence of plants (A) and butterflies (B) after 6 generations of selection under different temperature and biotic/pollination environments. Blue = ambient temperature, red = hot temperature, H = hand pollination (circles in A), Control = Pieris-control (circles in B), Coevo = coevolution Pieris-only (squares), CoB = coevolution Pieris + bumblebees (triangles). Linear discrim…
@radioeinsmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk
2026-01-16 21:33:06

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Sassy 009:
🎵 Butterflies
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@blakes7bot@mas.torpidity.net
2025-11-17 07:17:27

#Blakes7 Series A, Episode 11 - Bounty
SARKOFF: Beautiful, aren't they. Earth insects of the order Lepidoptera.
BLAKE: Butterflies.
SARKOFF: Ah, so you're an historian, are you?
BLAKE: No, but I did study some natural history.

@Dragofix@veganism.social
2026-01-05 22:05:09

Monarch butterflies could disappear. Butterfly Town USA is scrambling to save them theguardian.com/us-news/2026/j

Monarch butterflies could disappear. Butterfly Town USA is scrambling to save them
Pacific Grove is known as ‘Butterfly Town USA’ for its role as an overwintering spot. As the insect’s population plummets, residents are coming to its rescue

@fortune@social.linux.pizza
2026-01-07 22:00:01

[May one] doubt whether, in cheese and timber, worms are generated,
or, if beetles and wasps, in cow-dung, or if butterflies, locusts,
shellfish, snails, eels, and such life be procreated of putrefied
matter, which is to receive the form of that creature to which it
is by formative power disposed[?] To question this is to question
reason, sense, and experience. If he doubts this, let him go to
Egypt, and there he…

@hikingdude@mastodon.social
2025-12-20 10:33:20

I got the The Butterfly archetype! ❤️❤️❤️
I admit it made me smile (Not only because I like Butterflies but the analgy is just cute).
mastodon.social/@hikingdude/wr

@jby@ecoevo.social
2025-11-26 14:17:04

These butterflies pick host plants where the temperatures are more comfortable, even if they're less nutritious (but it's not clear from this data that the nutritional variation is biologically significant?)
doi.org/10.1101/2025.11.15.688

A small butterfly with club-end antennae, orange forewings with black spots, and sooty hindwings with orange bands at the trailing edge. Photo by Charles J. Sharp via Wikimedia Commons
@kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk
2025-10-21 10:52:43

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Sassy 009:
🎵 Butterflies
#Sassy009
#newRelease 🆕 single
sassy009.bandcamp.com/track/bu
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@primonatura@mstdn.social
2025-10-30 19:00:14

"Solar farms can bloom with life, not just energy"
#SolarPower #Energy #Renewables #Environment

Solar farms can bloom with life, not just energy
By planting wildflowers instead of grass, developers are creating habitat for bees, butterflies, and birds.