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BUTTERFLY SURVEY
In the 1950s, Swiss farmers intensified and mechanized their fields; nine decades of records now reveal an unexpected divide: butterflies are still struggling, while forest beetles have fully bounced backButterflies and beetles are disappearing at an alarming rate. A Swiss study reveals significant butterfly losses since 1930, linked to farm...
Celastrina iryna: New US butterfly species named after Ukrainian refugee Iryna ZarutskaA new butterfly species, Celastrina iryna, has been discovered in the southeastern United States. Researchers named it in memory of Iryna Z...
Kaziranga National Park records 446 butterfly species
Rare new butterfly species identified in Kodagu’s western ghats hotspot
Delhi's annual week-long butterfly census records 75 species with the Blank Swift documented for the first timeDelhi's annual butterfly census has documented a total of 75 butterfly species in the city's seven biodiversity parks. Notably, the census ...
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Haryana to develop world's largest safari, park to cover 10,000 acres"The proposed Aravalli park would be five times more this size and it would include a large herpetarium (a zoological exhibition space for ...
Key to butterfly climate survival may be colour codedA butterfly's ability to absorb or reflect heat from the sun with its wings could be a matter of life and death in a warming world, accordi...
Tech View: Nifty forms indecisive Doji, stays prone to profit takingThe Economic Survey will be released on Thursday and the Union Budget on Friday.
- NASA's Hubble spots massive cluster of 10 billion-years-old stars
Washington, June 30 (IANS) NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has detected a stunning image of a huge collection of ageing stars, believed to be...
Three new varieties of butterflies discovered in UttarakhandWith the discovery in Uttarakhand recently, the total number of varieties of butterflies found in the hill state is 453. Of the three new v...
- Catalogue of 1318 new species of butterflies
Bhimtal-based butterfly expert on Indian species Peter Smetacek has come up with a catalogue of the butterflies of India. The catalogue fea...
Forgoing nasty tricks, this butterfly imitates to escape predatorsCaterpillars and adults of the Plain Tiger butterfly spend a lot of their time foraging among plants that produce toxic alkaloids so that t...
- ZSI monitoring climate change impact on Sundarban animals
To measure the effect of climate change on the flora and fauna of Sundarbans, the Zoological Survey of India has set up monitoring bases in...
- Survey finds 198 bird species in Megamalai Wildlife Sanctuary
The first ever bird survey carried out in Megamalai Wildlife Sanctuary has recorded 198 bird species, including 26 migratory bird species.
Butterfly survey in Periyar Tiger Reserve records 246 speciesA total of 152 volunteers, including scientists, naturalists and students, participated in one of the largest butterfly surveys in the tige...
Social networking sites could become trove of biodiversity data, researcher saysSocial networking sites can act as a potential boon for scientifically documenting Earth's biodiversity, according to an Indian-origin rese...
Infrastructure projects have changed; adapt, or perishThe debt for infrastructure projects that largely came from public sector banks has dried up, except for government and public sector (PSU)...
- Kolkata's environment has worsened, survey says
An overwhelming number of Kolkatans feels the city’s environment has deteriorated significantly in recent years.
- 183 species of butterfly identified at Namdhapa National Park
Butterfly lovers identified and photo documented 183 species of 'flying beauties' in the buffer area of the Namdhapa national park in Aruna...