The native red admiral is less common than it used to be, but we can all help threatened bug species by ensuring they have the right habitats to thrive in.
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This caterpillar can cause excruciating pain when touched. But unlike most venomous arthropods, it uses its venom purely for self-defence.
Lepidoptera insects are at least 70m years older than we previously knew.
The dead animal specimens that comprise natural history collections contribute a lot toward scientific understanding of their still-living counterparts – and those that have gone extinct.
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Senior Collections Manager at McGuire Center for Lepidoptera & Biodiversity at Florida Museum of Natural History, University of Florida
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Professor of Palaeobiology, University of Portsmouth
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Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Institute for Molecular Bioscience, The University of Queensland
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Associate Professor in Botany, University of Otago
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PhD Candidate in Zoology, University of Otago