Sometimes, nature’s surprises come with wings. In a new study, scientists have pulled from a 35-year dataset to examine long-term population trends of the federally endangered Schaus’s swallowtail butterfly (Heraclides ponceana). They found that the swallowtail’s population size was positively influenced by something unexpected—hurricanes. Sometimes, nature’s surprises come with wings. In a new study, scientists have pulled from a 35-year dataset to examine long-term population trends of the federally endangered Schaus’s swallowtail butterfly (Heraclides ponceana). They found that the swallowtail’s population size was positively influenced by something unexpected—hurricanes. Plants & Animals Ecology Phys.org – latest science and technology news stories
Decades of data reveal hurricanes’ unexpected benefit to rare Florida butterfly
