
How do monarch butterflies know when to head north? Temperature!

How do monarch butterflies know when to head north? Temperature!
How does mimicry work in butterflies? Academy researcher Durrell Kapan and his colleagues have found the answer in the butterfly’s genome.

The recently sequenced monarch genome explains much about their migration.
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