Carolina Pereira
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Carolina Pereira
@caroliinavp.bsky.social
Student at Lausanne University, CH.

Fascinated by the (intra-specific) variation and (inter-specific) diversity in Nature.

Evolutionary Developmental Biology
Phenotypic Plasticity
Color patterns
Lepidoptera
Butterflies
Reposted by Carolina Pereira
December 15, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Reposted by Carolina Pereira
Another post dreaming of the warmer weather to come!
The Wall Brown (Lasiommata megera) butterfly, now sadly extinct in many regions of the UK, I photographed this one in #Gredos, Spain where they're still plentiful.

#InverteFest #inverts #lepidoptera #UKButterflies @europebutterfly.bsky.social
December 26, 2025 at 11:24 AM
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Delighted that our review on taste in butterflies and caterpillars still made it into the special collection of "Neuroethology in Lepidoptera" 🐛 🦋:
lnkd.in/epXNNK_z

This article, led by Dimitri Peftuloglu, gives a great overview of how these wonderful insects detect plant metabolites 🌱.
December 29, 2025 at 7:45 PM
An integrative taxonomy study of tetrigids found that discontinuous color variations are intraspecific variations and do not represent different species.

See more here: doi.org/10.3897/zook...

@nalini-drp.bsky.social
December 30, 2025 at 10:18 AM
Environment-induced phenotypic variation throughout development in Papilio machaon. 🌡🐛🦋
December 29, 2025 at 8:32 PM