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The researcher Paula Banza is studying the importance of moths in the burnt areas of the eastern Algarve in order to deepen the relationship between the pollinators and plants in the regeneration of the vegetation in the destroyed areas. Since the spring of 2013, the first following the fires, she has been capturing insects on a regular basis in three areas where there were fires and three that were unaffected, in order to analyse possible differences in their behavioural patterns. In a laboratory, they are subjected to a process that allows the grains of pollen they are carrying to be …