Blogs
- Butterfly species is fascinating when it comes to color variation.
- It appears that, for a plant that will flower only once, having offspring flower over a period of at least 40 years is a way of hedging one’s bets in an unpredictable environment.
- Adult buck moths earned the name by flying during fall deer hunting season.
- Two factors suggested that this spring and summer would witness extraordinary blooms of wildflowers on the Colorado Plateau. First of all, blooms in California were so colorful and extensive that they were easily visible from space and they
- The flight of sphinx moths is a marvel, for while hovering or accelerating the wings beat so fast that they emit a fluttering buzz — wingbeat frequencies are typically 41 cycles (up and down) per second.
- For evolutionary biologist Jeff Mitton, a trip to the Labyrinth Canyon Wilderness brought an added discovery.
- Males employ an anoxic kiss to reduce female struggle and increase complianceThe dam that forms Varsity Lake on the University of Colorado campus is solid, but nevertheless riddled with crevices that provide safe havens for western terrestrial
- Colorful cup-shaped flowers likely to bloom in force after wet winter.
- The Boulder Chickadee Study is a collaborative, long term effort between Kathryn Grabenstein, a PhD candidate in ecology and evolutionary biology at the Â鶹ÊÓƵ, and her thesis advisor, Scott Taylor, to examine hybridization.
- Colorado is home to 92 species of metallic wood boring beetles that share the wood boring habit and glittering iridescence.