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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/08/science/a-hungry-butterfly-is-a-hurting-butterfly.html?ref=observatory&_r=0">http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/08/science/a-hungry-butterfly-is-a-hurting-butterfly.html?ref=observatory&_r=0</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><h3 style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:.25in;margin-left:0in;background:white'><span class=kicker-label><span style='color:black;text-transform:uppercase;letter-spacing:.6pt'>SCIENCE</span></span><span style='font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:black;text-transform:uppercase;letter-spacing:.9pt;font-weight:normal'><o:p></o:p></span></h3><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:7.5pt;background:white'><b><i><span style='font-size:24.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:black'>A Hungry Butterfly Is a Hurting Butterfly<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><img border=0 width=463 height=333 id="Picture_x0020_1" src="cid:image001.jpg@01CF5324.D52A9720" alt="http://static01.nyt.com/images/2014/04/08/science/08FLOA_SPAN/08FLOA-master675.jpg"></span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:#333333;background:white'>Monarch butterflies that go without food may end up with smaller, paler wings, according to<span class=apple-converted-space> </span></span><a href="http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0093492" title="Article abstract."><span style='font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:#326891;background:white'>new research</span></a><span class=apple-converted-space><span style='font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:#333333;background:white'> </span></span><span style='font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:#333333;background:white'>in the journal PLOS One. To study the effect of food on growth, researchers deprived monarch larvae of milkweed. They found that two days of food restriction had a small but clear effect on wing size and coloration. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#999999;background:white'>A version of this article appears in print on April 8, 2014, on page D4 of the<span class=apple-converted-space> </span>New York edition<span class=apple-converted-space> </span>with the headline: Insects: A Hungry Butterfly Is a Hurting Butterfly.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Kelly Rourke<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Program Associate</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Pollinator Partnership</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>423 Washington Street, 5th Floor</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>San Francisco, CA 94111-2339</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>T: 415-362-1137 </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>F: 415-362-3070</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>E: <a href="mailto:kr@pollinator.org"><span style='color:blue'>kr@pollinator.org</span></a></span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><a href="http://www.pollinator.org"><span style='color:blue'>www.pollinator.org</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>