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style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:blue'>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 size=4 color=blue face="Comic Sans MS"><span
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Tahoma;font-weight:bold'>From:</span></font></b><font size=2
face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;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>
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<p class=MsoNormal><strong><b><font size=5 face=Arial><span style='font-size:
18.0pt;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 size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold'>Tim Radford, science editor</span></font></b><font
size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;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 size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
font-weight:bold'>Guardian</span></font></b><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
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 size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;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 size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;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 size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;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 size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;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 size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;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 size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>On
the evidence so far, they can do the latter.</span></font> <font size=2
face=Verdana><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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