This epic migration of the butterfly is written in his chemistry
Painted ladies travel each year every year in mass travel, including the Sahara
The painted ladies are ultraitious world of butterfly than the monarchy. Scientists have long known for their globetrotting trends, but recently recently put their attention on specific migration paths.
Several generations in several generations can take 9,300 kilometers each year from Scandinavia to the equatorial Africa and back. Even though each painted lady travels a lot, researchers recently determined in Pnas Nexus That some people fly 2,500 miles away from Europe Overwintering sites African Sahel, on the Mediterranean Sea and Sahara desert along the way. Littlely unwanted Cross the Atlantic Ocean To South America, other researchers found. In North AmericaMeanwhile, Miss painted between Mexico and Canada. Asian, seen cutting through the Himalayas.
“There are no passive pilots in the wind,” says Arthur M. Shapirok, Emeritus Lepidopterian, University of California, Davis. “They’re correcting himself.” In ideal proliferation conditions, “The air is completely full,” he added.
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It weighs less than one gram, the painted ladies are very light to form regular monitoring devices. For the new research, Megan S. Reich and his colleagues were captured 40 butterflies and were generated by isotopes, isotopes, isotopes, the births based on isotope-based birth. Hydrogen and stronification In their wings, finding real long carriers.
“Sometimes people think that butterflies are really fragile creatures,” Reich said. “But they can be pretty hard.” Painted ladies are particularly well adapted to long distance travel. No locations, many hosts offer food. When it is cold, they create heat in the body. Their triangular birds encourage 30 miles per hour. Those with yellow fat reserves, so high, until the 2000s, people in the UK almost almost He never left They thought the country and so they were dying every winter.
However, the painted ladies are not unique. If hundreds, thousands, if not migrating insect species, they migrate, as well as butterflies Cross the Indian Oceanmoths indirect australia and vegetable folds Windsurf through the eastern Asia. “There are incredible insect migrations,” Reich said, most of them never record.
