Although the original monarch butterfly study received worldwide media attention, the follow-up studies that refuted it did not receive the same amount of coverage.
He was the first British monarch to study science systematically.
But that would have been a day before the monarch butterfly studies were to be published.
They were looking for small numbered paper stickers -- tags applied to butterflies in the United States as part of Monarch Watch, a study of the insects' migration patterns that is based at the University of Kansas.
Street theater abounded; several protesters ran around dressed as white-coated fanatical scientists wielding giant syringes and several others fluttered about as butterflies to symbolize the monarchs that a study has shown were harmed by genetically altered corn.
Before you do the task, you might… Extension Activity: "Lab lit" has become increasingly popular over the last few years, with books like "Flight Behavior," about an entomologist studying monarch butterflies, and Allegra Goodman's "Intuition," about a biotech lab.
If that's the case, studying monarch clock mechanics could provide important clues to how such timepieces evolved.
By using the sun as a compass, say researchers who devised a new flight simulator to study monarchs as they flew segments of a virtual migratory journey.
Since the study on monarchs was published a year ago, critics of regulatory agencies have cited its findings as a sign that environmental risks are not being adequately monitored.
A scientist named Ovid Byron arrives to study the monarchs, or King Billies, as locals have called them since colonial times, after the royal colors of the Protestant settlers' prince, William of Orange.
