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Extensive climate-induced range shifts in butterflies across the globe
Abstract Global changes are leading to widespread species redistribution. Comprehensive assessments of range shift dynamics and their drivers are difficult, partly due to the variation in range shift detection over space and taxa. Here we compile documented range shift records for 1,758 butterfly species from 105 countries and territories, representing ~10% of the known diversity of these insects.
Tiny wasps emerge from a caterpillar, and reveal a hidden world
The following is an excerpt from “Hidden Creatures” by Dino Martins. Copyright © 2026 by Dino J. Martins. Published by arrangement with Alfred A Knopf, an imprint of The Knopf Doubleday Group, a division of Penguin Random House LLC . When you purchase products through the Bookshop.org link on this page, Science Friday earns a small commission which helps support our journalism.
A new genus and two new species of gall midges (Diptera: Cecidomyiidae) feeding on Guinea grass Megathyrsus maximus (Poaceae) in Africa
CONFLICT OF INTEREST STATEMENT The authors declare that they have no conflict of interest. REFERENCES , , , & (1994) DNA primers for amplification of mitochondrial cytochrome c oxidase subunit I from diverse metazoan invertebrates. Molecular Marine Biology and Biotechnology, 3(5), 294–299. & (2021) A catalog of the Cecidomyiidae (Diptera) of the world, 4th edition. Washington, DC: Digital. U.S. Department of Agriculture, c/o Smithsonian Institution.
A global phylogeny of butterflies reveals their evolutionary history, ancestral hosts and biogeographic origins - Nature Ecology & Evolution
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Abstract Butterflies are a diverse and charismatic insect group that are thought to have evolved with plants and dispersed throughout the world in response to key geological events. However, these hypotheses have not been extensively tested because a comprehensive phylogenetic framework and datasets for butterfly larval hosts and global distributions are lacking.
By Akito Y. Kawahara, David Plotkin, Fabien L. Condamine, Mariana P. Braga, Paul Frandsen, Hannah L. Owens, Wendy A. Valencia-Montoya, Rebeccah Messcher, Rod Eastwood, Zdenek F. Fric, Jomar D. Hinolan, Nicholas T. Homziak, Yu-Feng Hsu, Ian Kitching, Krushnamegh Kunte, Michael J. Landis, Vladimir Lukhtanov, José Martínez Verified, Dino Martins, Nicolás Oliveira Mega, Alexander Monastyrskii, Chris Muller, Pablo Sebastián Padrón, Helena Piccoli Romanowski, Szabolcs Sáfián, Motoki Saito, Doug Soltis, Pamela S Soltis, Andrei Sourakov, Gerard Talavera, Roger Vila, Keith R. Willmott, Masaya Yago, Walter Jetz, Marta A. Jarzyna, Jesse Breinholt, Marianne Espeland, Robert Guralnick, Naomi E. Pierce, José Martinez
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Urbanization and market integration have strong, nonlinear effects on cardiometabolic health in the Turkana
Abstract The “mismatch” between evolved human physiology and Western lifestyles is thought to explain the current epidemic of cardiovascular disease (CVD) in industrialized societies. However, this hypothesis has been difficult to test because few populations concurrently span ancestral and modern lifestyles.
Jumbos essential in preventing soil depletion - study
Elephants play an important role in the management of the African savannah as they prevent soil from being depleted by livestock. This is the conclusion of new research by the Vrije Universiteit Brussel in collaboration with the Mpala Research Centre in Kenya. In the African savanna, wild herbivores are increasingly displaced by cattle, and that is not without consequences.
Bees Sleeping… And Dreaming?
My name is Dino J. Martins, and I am a Kenyan entomologist who loves insects. The Kiswahili word for insect is dudu and if you didn’t know already, insects rule the world! Thanks to the amazing efforts of the “little things that run the world” I was humbled to be selected as a National Geographic Emerging Explorer. This blog is a virtual dudu safari through the fascinating world of bugs. Enjoy, and leave a comment and send any questions or comments to me through: insects.eanhs@gmail.com.
Bee With No Stripes Discovered in Kenya
It has a black head and a bright orange body, and velociraptor-like claws on its hind legs. It lives underground, not in a hive. And it lives by itself, instead of in the huge colonies we’re used to. Here’s the story of the discovery of the world’s newest-known bee. The hot, dusty bush and deserts of Turkana in Northern Kenya are one of our planet’s most remote and exciting regions to explore.
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