Saturday 6 February 2010

News - Butterflies uses the upper winds to migrate

This was a big story yesterday here in the UK on the early news on Radio 4.

It seems that the insects have a compass sense that enables them to selects the right uppers winds to make journeys of several thousand kilometres to escape the harsher weather in the northern hemisphere.

More details  here for the full story.

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