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<DIV><SPAN class=500492116-06042005><FONT face=Arial color=#000080>I am still
ruminating over the concept of giving a butterfly a 'bikini
wax'!!!</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=500492116-06042005><FONT face=Arial
color=#000080></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=500492116-06042005><FONT face=Arial
color=#000080>Jon</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV class=OutlookMessageHeader dir=ltr align=left><FONT face=Tahoma
size=2>-----Original Message-----<BR><B>From:</B> OSLIST
[mailto:OSLIST@LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU]<B>On Behalf Of </B>Henri
Lipmanowicz<BR><B>Sent:</B> 06 April 2005 16:41<BR><B>To:</B>
OSLIST@LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU<BR><B>Subject:</B> Re: butterflies, from
today's Guardian<BR><BR></FONT></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" color=blue size=4><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; COLOR: blue; FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS'">The
researchers could have saved a lot of trouble and just ask Harrison; he would
have told them what butterflies can do…<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" color=blue size=4><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 13.5pt; COLOR: blue; FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS'">Henri</SPAN></FONT><o:p></o:p></P></DIV>
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face=Tahoma size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">
<st1:PersonName w:st="on">OSLIST</st1:PersonName> [mailto:<st1:PersonName
w:st="on">OSLIST</st1:PersonName>@LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU] <B><SPAN
style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">On Behalf Of </SPAN></B>Marty Boroson<BR><B><SPAN
style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Sent:</SPAN></B> Wednesday, April 06, 2005 4:36
AM<BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">To:</SPAN></B> <st1:PersonName
w:st="on">OSLIST</st1:PersonName>@LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU<BR><B><SPAN
style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Subject:</SPAN></B> butterflies, from today's
Guardian</SPAN></FONT><o:p></o:p></P></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal><STRONG><B><FONT face=Arial size=5><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 18pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Butterflies equipped with tracker
devices</SPAN></FONT></B></STRONG><FONT face=Arial><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> </SPAN></FONT><FONT face=Verdana><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><B><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Tim Radford,
science editor</SPAN></FONT></B><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><BR><B><SPAN
style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Wednesday April 6,
2005</SPAN></B><o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P><B><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Guardian</SPAN></FONT></B><FONT
face=Arial size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Butterflies know where they are
going. They might look indecisive as they flutter by, but British scientists
now know better. <o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">A
team from Rothamsted Research in Hertfordshire fitted peacock butterflies and
small tortoiseshells with radar backpacks and tracked their flightpaths.
<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">The radar fitting must be one of
the most intricate technological challenges ever attempted on wildlife. The
delicate creatures had to be held down, given the lepidopterist's equivalent
of a bikini wax and then fitted with transponders weighing just 12-thousandths
of a gram. Researchers have used the same technique to track the flights of
bees and bumblebees. <o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">The insects could fly normally:
the transponders weighed between 4% and 8% of their total bodyweight.
<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">The scientists watched the
butterflies play, feed and even mate. "It obviously didn't bother them that
much," said Lizzie Cant of Rothamsted. <o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">"Butterflies are good pollinators
and I wanted to know whether or not they fly along linear features, along a
fence row, or whether they can fly quite directly; whether from a distance
they can see a patch and fly to it across the fields."
<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">On the evidence so far, they can
do the latter.</SPAN></FONT> <FONT face=Verdana size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P></DIV></DIV>*
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