Moths' Sweet Way of Compensating for Lack of Antioxidants (IMAGE)

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Moths' Sweet Way of Compensating for Lack of Antioxidants

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Manduca sexta hawkmoth approaching Datura wrightii flower with proboscis extended to imbibe nectar. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the Feb. 17, issue of Science, published by AAAS. The paper, by E. Levin at University of Arizona in Tucson, AZ, and colleagues was titled, 'Hawkmoths use nectar sugar to reduce oxidative damage from flight.'

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Bruce D. Taubert

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