Beans And Bees Gave Us Butterflies
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Published 2023-12-05
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Turns out, instead of having bats to thank for the existence of butterflies, the groups we should actually be thanking are…bees and beans.
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All Comments (21)
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Just imagining that first moth that stayed up past dawn and found a new food source.
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I like to think that at least once, back in the Cretaceous, a young T-Rex could be seen running around, eagerly trying to catch a butterfly.
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Fun fact: the French word for "moth" translates to "night butterfly".
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When talking about ancient butterflies, I can't help but mention the Kalligrammatids! An extinct order of lacewings that convergently evolved into butterfly-like shapes during the Jurassic, long before true butterflies were a thing. Scaly wings, eyespots and all. They were likely specialised in pollinating Bennettitales, though people aren't quite sure. Went extinct during the K-T, as usual.
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I didn't know that both beans and butterflies are so abundant.
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Literally writing a paper on butterfly evolution for a class taught by one of the researchers involved in the 2023 study cited in this video.
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I'm for calling them "day moths" instead of "butterflies" from now on.
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Beans, beans, the magical fruit, the less you chemically defend yourself, the more you get butterflies
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If the evidence exists, I'd love to see a video on the evolution of butterfly-style metamorphosis. It's always been hard for me to wrap my head around what set of evolutionary mechanisms could create that beyond the broad end-goal benefit of food availability during different life stages.
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Every single episode seriously slaps. I really appreciate the information that you all publish, especially in the fantastically casual way your videos lay out many complicated ideas. Eons is easily one of the most consistently fantastic channels on the platform!
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Imagine the first moth to feel the sun's warmth!
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Paleo art butterflies is something I desperately need in my life
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4:10 little tiny footsteps... too cute 🥰 bees, butterflies, and moths, such cute little guy
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Fun fact....there's a moth or butterfly in Alaska that has the ability to stay in worm form and hibernate until it manages during the short warm months to consume enough food to transform into the moth or butterfly 😊
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Remember; Mothra is an evolved butterfly
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Yakoke chito ( a big thank you) to whomever had the idea to put in a land acknowledgement for the fossils cited! That was a nice surprise to see.
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Fun fact: There’s a subfamily of legumes called Faboidae or Papilionoideae (from faber - bean or papilion - butterfly) that are also named butterfly flower/bean family in other languages though presumably from their flower shapes that are reminiscent of butterfly wings. Still a funny thought that some of the plants that aided butterfly evolution evolved into looking like butterflies themselves
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Me and my butterflies up at 3pm looking for BEANS
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As a Diné (Navajo), thank you for the Land Acknowledgement and referring to the Nemme sosoni'ihnee'e & Nuche people by their chosen names, and not just the ones attributed through colonization.
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ive been reading this books, Otherlands, and the writer explains this genius idea of knowing how long and where butterflies and moths have existed based on fossilised leaf prints with chew prints from caterpillars! Crazy stuff.
