Just read an interesting article suggesting that the ancestry of butterflies lies very closely with micro-moths. Have a look at http://butterfly-conservation.org/48-33 ... -moth.html and check out their link to the full article. Very interesting indeed!
Cheers,
Gibster.
Butterflies are micro-moths?
Butterflies are micro-moths?
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Re: Butterflies are micro-moths?
I love all these ancestral trees that are being published with ever more detail as a result of biochemical analyses. Some of them completely change one's view of things (like the Maculinea/Phengaris discoveries) and all of them add a level of understanding quite unachievable until very recently.
It's interesting that true butterflies and skippers, long associated for morphological reasons, remain next to each other even in this analysis. Whatever conclusions science might come to in the future, the 'butterflies' will always hold a special place in my heart!
Guy
It's interesting that true butterflies and skippers, long associated for morphological reasons, remain next to each other even in this analysis. Whatever conclusions science might come to in the future, the 'butterflies' will always hold a special place in my heart!
Guy
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Re: Butterflies are micro-moths?
Yes - the first fascination remains with those fabulous, multi-coloured, childhood memories, full of sunlit days. butterflies and flowers.....
And they say nostalgia isn't what it was.....
And they say nostalgia isn't what it was.....
"Conservation starts in small places, close to home..."
Re: Butterflies are micro-moths?
Whatever happened to those?NickB wrote:...those fabulous, multi-coloured, childhood memories, full of sunlit days. butterflies and flowers....
