Episode 71 - Butterflies

The Natural Selection Presents

Join us as this week The Natural Selection Presents... Butterflies! (and moths). In this episode, we learned all about some beautiful butterflies and marvelous moths. We explored coevolution with flowers, dazzling displays, and some butterflies brought back from the brink of extinction. Listen now to find out more.

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Species mentioned in this episode are listed below.

Mallards

Fruit flies

Anole lizards – lizards in the genus Anolis

Fixed front fangs -Taipans - snakes in the genus Oxyuranus in the elapid family

Crab eating water snake – (Fordonia leucobalia)

Lepidoptera

Queen Alexandra's birdwing (Ornithoptera alexandrae)

Painted lady (Vanessa cardui)

Morgan's sphinx moth (Xanthopan morganii)

Large Blue (Phengaris arion)

Red ant (Myrimica sabuleti)

European rabbit (Oryctolagus cuniculus)

Silk worm (Bombyx mori)

Wild silk moth (Bombyx mandarina)

- The butterfly mentioned by Nabakov in the excerpt from Speak, memory Anarta cordigera