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Butterflies flew 2,600 miles across the Atlantic without stopping
Researchers combined several lines of evidence to solve the mystery of why a group of painted ladies, which do not live in South America, were found fluttering on a beach in French Guiana
The butterflies likely made the 2,600-mile trek across the Atlantic from West Africa with help from favorable wind conditions, the researchers report Tuesday in the journal Nature Communications. This allowed them to identify the plants the creatures had recently visited— Guiera senegalensis and Ziziphus spina-christi, two shrub species that only flower at the end of West Africa’s rainy season. Filed Under: Africa, Animals, Biology, Bugs, Butterflies, Chemistry, DNA, Genetics, Insects, Migration, New Research, Pollinators, South America, Weather, wildlife
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