FAIRBANKS — All the big, black and yellow striped butterflies you see fluttering about are nothing unusual. It’s just the annual outbreak of hatching Canadian tiger swallowtails. “Tiger swallowtails ...
The Appalachian tiger swallowtail butterfly is a rare breed: Some 100,000 years ago, two different species mated and their hybrid offspring gave rise to the Appalachian species, researchers have found ...
The monarch population has been in decline for years, and now a committee of scientists in Canada is calling the butterflies "endangered." The butterfly population has seen "declines of greater than ...
Outside, Ottawa has started what’s expected to be at least a week of super-chilly weather. But inside the Canadian Museum of ...
The Appalachian tiger swallowtail butterfly is a rare breed: Some 100,000 years ago, two different species mated and their hybrid offspring gave rise to the Appalachian species, researchers have found ...
Monarch butterflies in their winter refuge in Morelia, Mexico. (Photo: gailfisher/Wikimedia Commons) Scientists, biologists and mathematicians have built a model circuit to simulate the internal ...