Tag: Butterflies

  • Nation & World

    Why are hybrid animals sterile?

    Study of crossbred butterflies suggests multiple genes involved

    3 minutes
    Chinese peacock swallow butterflies.
  • Nation & World

    Butterflies heading north

    A Harvard study reveals that over the past 19 years, a warming climate has been reshaping Massachusetts butterfly communities.

    2 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Nabokov’s blues

    Ten years before his novel “Lolita,” Vladimir Nabokov published a detailed hypothesis for the origin and evolution of the Polyommatus blues butterflies. A team, led by a Harvard professor, is proving him right.

    3 minutes