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Evolutionary arms race stretches hawkmoths and flowers to extremes

Long before his days of research, Christian Couch was just a kid marveling at the butterflies in the Florida Museum of Natural History's Butterfly Rainforest. Years later, after enrolling as an undergraduate student at the University of Florida, that same sense of wonder led him back to the museum,...

Evolutionary arms race stretches hawkmoths and flowers to extremes
Image: Phys.org
Long before his days of research, Christian Couch was just a kid marveling at the butterflies in the Florida Museum of Natural History's Butterfly Rainforest. Years later, after enrolling as an undergraduate student at the University of Florida, that same sense of wonder led him back to the museum, first as a volunteer in the Kawahara Lab and eventually as a master's student studying the insects that first inspired him.

Originally published at Phys.org

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