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The Lightning Stroke
Some musing on the state of the world and what's needed to change if we are going to avoid collective destruction
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Scientific study has always combined, in different ways and to varying degrees, research designed to increase understanding and build knowledge, together with making forecasts, warnings or proposals on the basis of that knowledge. Moreover, in recent decades many phenomena related to accelerating global change have tended to increase the need to unite vision and action within scientific discourse. The fact that the world is now facing a sixth mass extinction, involving one million plant and animal species that are at risk, largely attributable to human impacts, is but one example of such a development. Within this context, in The Disappearance of Butterflies, Josef Reichholf offers a series of fascinating insights into the biology, the physics and the chemistry of Lepidoptera, including their remarkable adaptive capacities in the face of eco-systemic transformations. At the same time, he also poses a range of questions that act as provocations for all those who study the multiple, i...
Lepidoptera are one of the four major insect orders. They are scale-winged insects, traditionally divided into three major assemblages: micro-moths, butterflies and macro-moths. Before discussing practical conservation of Lepidoptera, it is necessary to consider their known rates and causes of change, and whether these are representative of other insect species. The chapter states that declines in Lepidoptera are driven primarily by factors that affect all species, rather than by targeted overcollecting. Butterflies may be useful indicators of habitat change. The chapter suggests that butterflies can be sensitive predictors of the impacts of environmental change on other organisms, as well as useful representatives of less conspicuous terrestrial insects. It comments on how approaches to Lepidoptera conservation differ between regions and land use types, and stresses the importance of adopting a landscape scale allied to a resource-based view, both for single-species and for biotope/community conservation.
Butterflies are diurnal insects belonging to the order Lepidoptera. They are holometabolous insects with brightly coloured wings adapted for fluttering flight. They can be further classified as true butterflies, skippers and moth butterflies. They exhibit polymorphism, mimicry and aposematism. Monarch butterfly is known to travel long distances. Some have developed symbiotic and parasitic associations with certain organisms like ants. Some species are considered as pests as their larval stages or the caterpillars are known to cause extensive damage to our agricultural crops. Some butterflies are known as pollinators and the larvae of some species are known to feed on harmful insects. Butterflies deserve a special significance in art and culture.
Resonance
The study of butterflies2000 •
In the second part of the series on butterflies, we look at some general aspects of their structure, flight, fuels and senses.
LEDA MELANITIS: Rare Butterflies, Timelessness and What has Once been Human NEW YORK POSTHUMAN / Sozita Goudouna speaks on Leda Transgenic by Y. Melanitis http://www.posthumans.org/ny-posthuman-winter-summit-2018.html We are delighted to inform you that our next NY Posthuman Winter Summit is scheduled for Wednesday, December 5th, to be held at NYU, 7.00-9.00 pm. We are truly excited to present our next speakers, who are coming from different states and countries to bring their visions on the posthuman turn. This is our highly promising outline: Invited Speakers 1. Sozita Goudouna (NYU) and Yiannis Melanitis (Athens School of Fine Arts): "A transgenic butterfly with a human gene: Transfering information between organisms" 2. Maria Witheman (Indiana University): "In the Air: Art and Philosophy through Ecology of Air, Oil and Wildlife" 3. Orsola Rignani (University of Firenze,Italy) "Towards a Posthuman Humanism: Federal Humanism between Natural Contract and Political Ecology" 4.Romina Wainberg (Stanford University) "The Posthuman Aporia: On How (Not) to Sacrifice Posthuman Ethics" Full abstracts and bios available in the last section of this email. Here all the details to attend our NY Posthuman Winter 2018 Summit: When Wednesday, December 5th, 7.00-9.00 pm. Where (Please, note that this Summit we are in a different NYU building than last Winter) New York University, Silver Center for Arts and Science. Address: 31 Washington Pl, New York, NY 10003. Room: 401 RSVP Entrance is free, registration is required: To register, please fill out this form If you are planning to attend, please make sure to send the form, otherwise, the security will not let you in the building. Our most sincere gratitude goes to NYU for all the kind, generous and precious support offered to our Group. ABSTRACTS Abstract 1: "A transgenic butterfly with a human gene: Transfering information between organisms" The Melanitis leda Project is a transgenic model of the Leda Melanitis butterfly (named by Linnaeus 1758), using one of the artists' genes . The project, completed last year, was to breed transgenic butterflies containing a gene of human origin, which miss-expressed a protein to acquire ectopic eyes. As Antiphon the sophist states "Names can be erroneous… The concepts we use are not delimited by the exact way objects are". That is the initial point for making LEDA MELANITIS. My surname, Μelanitis, derives from the Greek root melas (μέλας), dark, deprived of light; a property probably attracted Linnaeus in naming the inspected butterfly... The broader area of my analysis is information in contemporary art and under this sense, Leda Melanitis initiates a dispersion of homonymic information between organisms. The aim of Leda Melanitis is to interweave language and life not as bio-laboratory exercise, but in the tradition of a modernistic art strategy and practice.
Butterflies are abundant and diverse group of insects and receive reasonable amount of attention throughout world. In Indian region about 1504 species of butterflies are recorded. The present study was carried out with a view to survey the diversity of butterfly in Rajeeve Gandhi Smriti Van. Selected site is located 12k.m. away, in the south from Raipur city. It is an unique ex situ conservation site for butterflies, spreading over an area of. It was develop to improve public awareness towards the conservation of nature and environment. The butterfly's diversity of this garden was recorded from the month of September 2012 to August 2013. A total of 47 species were recorded. The highest number of butterflies were belonging to family Nymphalidae (17) followed by Lycaenidae (11), Pieridae (7), Hesperiidae (7) and Papilionidae (5). Butterfly occupies a vital position in ecosystem and their presence and diversity is considered as a good indicator of the health of any Biotope. The diversity of the butterflies, in this smriti van will be increased by the suitable measures for the conservation of larval and nectar host plants.
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