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Residents in 6 states - including Alabama - asked to mail in deceased butterflies, moths, and skippers to help scientists

Residents in 6 states - including Alabama - asked to mail in deceased butterflies, moths, and skippers to help scientists
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Butterfly Collapse Spurs New Investigation in Kansas

A Kansas scientist has launched a landmark study focused on the collapse of butterfly populations. She's asking folks to mail her dead butterflies.

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Wanted: Bugs — dead, not alive - Wilson County News

That’s right. The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) is asking citizens in six mid-U.S. states to mail in deceased butterflies, moths, and skippers to help USGS scientists establish a Lepidoptera Research Collection (LRC). The six states in the survey are Alabama, Georgia, Kansas, Nebraska, Oklahoma, and Texas. These specimens will help USGS scientists identify contaminants and

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Bring out your dead : U S G S wants you to mail them butterfly and moth corpses for science

Since April, the USGS has asked residents in six states to send them the bodies of dead butterflies, moths, skippers, and other species from the Lepidoptera family of insects.

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Collect butterflies, moths for science

The USGS wants you to send them dead moths and butterflies. Citizens in six mid-U.S. states are being asked to mail in deceased butterflies, moths

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