Butterfly species with bigger wingspans have expanded their vary in high-latitude elements of North America because the local weather has warmed, whereas smaller butterflies and people tailored to chilly situations have tended to say no.
Vaughn Shirey at Georgetown University in Washington DC and his colleagues constructed a computational mannequin to analyse information on the presence of 90 butterfly species above 45°N in North America from 1970 to 2019.
The group analysed how shifting month-to-month minimal temperatures over the previous 50 …
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