An international research team in search of painted lady butterfly breeding grounds in Africa has published the results of years of fieldwork. In the paper, “The Afrotropical breeding grounds of the Palearctic-African migratory painted lady butterflies (Vanessa cardui),” published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the team illustrates their search for the migratory insect’s hidden winter breeding grounds on the massive continent.
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