miR‐252a‐5p targets OVOL to regulate ovary development and egg viability (hatchability) in Helicoverpa armigera This paper describes a study on the mechanisms of reproductive development in the cotton bollworm (Helicoverpa armigera). Cotton bollworm poses a serious threat to agricultural production as a polyph...

miR-252a-5p targets OVOL to regulate #ovary development and egg viability (hatchability) in #Helicoverpa armigera #reproduction #lepidopteran pests
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

see #Leediku – any old mottled butterfly or moth. (Bottle of wine for the first realistic answer backed up by credible evidence). Part of a #lepidopteran group. See also #Kuldtiiva.

#A_Rambling_Dictionary_of_Tallinn_Street_Names
#TallinnStreets #TallinnaTänavad
#Unexplained #Seletamatu

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#Kirilase (Kirilane)
#Tallinn #Pirita #Lepiku
As #McCruiskeen would say: “quite a pancake this one”. After a long process of elimination, given its almost totally #lepidopteran neighbors, we can almost certainly exclude the following fancies: a) a ‘k’ omitted from #kiriklane, churchman;
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#Silmiku (Silmik)
#Tallinn #Pirita #Lepiku
#Satyr, #WoodNymph (sorry to raise your hopes: a #satyrid, more prosaically known as brown butterfly), or something with eyes. Part of a #lepidopteran group. See also #Sinitiiva.

#Nature #Loodus
#Animal #Loom
#Insect #Putukas

has it that they’re never around when you need ’em, both species are quite common in #Estonia), #HeodesVirgaureae. Part of a #lepidopteran group. See also #Leediku.

#A_Rambling_Dictionary_of_Tallinn_Street_Names
#TallinnStreets #TallinnaTänavad
#Nature #Loodus
#Animal #Loom
#Insect #Putukas
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The second piece from the stream...Vivillion and its pre-evos. At least, it LOOKS like a Vivillion...

#myart #noAI #vivillion #legends #ZA #pokemonfromhell #lepidopteran #menace

a #lepidopteran group. See also #Sügislase (or, why not, #Sipelga).

#A_Rambling_Dictionary_of_Tallinn_Street_Names
#TallinnStreets #TallinnaTänavad
#Nature #Loodus
#Insect #Putukas
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Caterpillar on privet leaf.

Small privet hedge, blue sky beyond.

Another new #lepidopteran species for me, encountered on a privet hedge in St Agnes, Cornwall. This is a Knot grass moth caterpillar, a mid-sized Eurasian noctuid that's evolved dark variants in places of urban pollution. Eats diverse plants, including grasses and shrubs, and is declining :(

#Sámi). Strictly, a #WoollyBear: #caterpillar of the #Arctiidae moth family, but also name of the scarlet tiger moth itself, #CallimorphaDominula and probably used, as in #English, for a variety of hairy caterpillars. Part of a #lepidopteran group. See also #Päevakoera.

#Insect #Putukas
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APHIS Begins Public Comment Period on Draft Plant Pest Risk Assessment and Draft Environmental Assessment for Lepidopteran-Protected Maize - Bergeson & Campbell, P.C. On June 3, 2025, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) began a public comment period on a draft plant

APHIS Begins Public Comment Period on Draft Plant Pest Risk Assessment and Draft Environmental Assessment for Lepidopteran-Protected Maize
www.lawbc.com/aphis-begins...
#geneticengineering, #MON95379, #lepidopteran, #APHIS

A gorgeous blue butterfly with a fuzzy blue body and silvery blue wings with black edging, sits perched in the sun.

A tiny blue butterfly perches with its wings closed on the tip of a fern. Multiple dots can be seen in loose lines on the underwing.

A brownish/bluish butterfly can be seen perched with its wings open at the tip of a fern.

Start your morning with the first Silvery Blues (Glaucopsyche lygdamus) of the season. Big Sur coast. #inverts #butterflies #lepidopteran #glaucopsyche

On the fence
American snout butterfly
(Libytheana carinenta)

June in Chicago. 🦋

#Nymphalidae #butterflies #butterfly #bugs #insects #Lepidoptera #Lepidopteran #macro #photography

Dramatic butterfly with white-borderd deep blue wings, clubbed antennae, and a head with a red topknot to match the tip-of-the-tail which looks like it was dipped in red paint. Genus Pyrropyge (phidias group) Hesperiidae

A generally orange-bodied, red ruby-eyed skipper whose wings and thorax are flecked with green, sky blue, red, orange and white. It rests alertly on green forest leaf. The species is Thracides cleanthes telmela, in the family Hesperiidae.

Euselasia orba spectralis is a metalmark butterfly (Family Riodinidae) with deep blue coloration on the upperwings (which are mostly hidden) and an underside with a bold pattern of blue oval spots ringed with tan and layered in a blue matrix that is held in place by light blue and deep red transverse bands arising from a bold smear of pink along the inner edge that lightens or darkens depending on the angle of viewing.

Euselasia orba spectralis is a metalmark butterfly (Family Riodinidae) with deep blue coloration on the upperwings (which are mostly hidden) and an underside with a bold pattern of blue oval spots ringed with tan and layered in a blue matrix that is held in place by light blue and deep red transverse bands arising from a bold smear of pink along the inner edge that lightens or darkens depending on the angle of viewing - See, this one is more intense than the other!

Who’d put such designs on #butterflies? Along the #Apuya Tract (#Napo #Ecuador), my humble expectations for sensible #Lepidopteran coloration were shattered again & again. Little brown jobs just won’t do – a given for #metalmarks, but true here even for #skippers!

Let’s fly baby

#butterfly #nature #macro #butterflies #naturephotography #art #photography #insects #flowers #insect #macrophotography #butterflyphotography #wildlife #naturelovers #beautiful #butterfliesofinstagram #schmetterling #mariposa #perfection #butterflytattoo #papillon #lepidopteran