butterflies
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His Turner Endangered Species Fund, launched in June 1997, has worked to save gopher tortoises, monarch butterflies and leopard frogs, working mainly with private landowners.
From Barron's • May 6, 2026
An international group of researchers led by the University of York and the Wellcome Sanger Institute focused on butterflies and moths from South American rainforests.
From Science Daily • May 4, 2026
Despite their evolutionary distance, the team discovered that both butterflies and moths repeatedly relied on the same two genes, ivory and optix, to produce nearly identical warning colors.
From Science Daily • May 4, 2026
Rare butterflies have been spotted after a group of volunteers planted hundreds of elm trees.
From BBC • Apr. 16, 2026
I’d nodded, the butterflies in my stomach swarming.
From "Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence" by Sonja Thomas
