✨ 🦋 📲 How your smartphone could help unlock the mystery of the monarch butterfly's migration from Mexico 😎

[snowyca@social.vivaldi.net]

How your smartphone could help unlock the mystery of the monarch butterfly's migration from Mexico

Butterflies that swarm El Rosario reserve over winter tagged with tiny transmitters to track journey north

#Butterfly #Science #Technology

https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/monarch-butterfly-mexico-migration-tracking-smartphone-9.7126224

[jd@mstdn.ca]

@SnowyCA

Fascinating. I’m reminded of the time, several years ago now, when I was having a conversation with an etymologist from Agriculture Canada and I asked him if scientists knew how butterflies were able to navigate to their summer destination given that it was their great grandparents who had last been there.
“They haven’t a clue,” he said.
So there’s a lot to learn.

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@jd @SnowyCA

hunches, its all hunches, they fly on hunches