Wednesday, April 4, 2018

Global warming can turn monarch butterflies' favorite food into poison

Source: Beauregard Daily News
Details: Faldyn and Elderd found that the local warming associated with climate change can produce chemical changes in milkweed that in turn affect monarch butterflies when they and their larvae feed on certain species of this plant, particularly the non-native milkweed, Asclepias curassavica. “It's important to ...

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