City Smells Confound Flower-Seeking Moths (NY Times)
Car exhaust and other urban fumes can disrupt moths’ ability to make their way to flowers, a new study reports.
“The flowers occur in patches that can be kilometers away, and these moths are almost at the edge of survival trying to find them,” said Jeff Riffell, a biologist at the University of Washington and the first author of the study, which appears in the journal Science.
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