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25 cze 2024 · The monarch butterfly (Danaus plexippus) also annually migrates between Canada and Mexico, and tagged individuals have demonstrated flights as long as 4635 km (2880 miles) 37,38.
13 cze 2018 · A British Ecological Society funded study found that painted lady butterflies return from the Afrotropical region to recolonise the Mediterranean in early spring, travelling an annual distance of 12,000 km across the Sahara Desert.
25 cze 2024 · How did these two-inch, seemingly fragile insects arrive on a coast thousands of miles away from their home, outside their known migration route?
9 paź 2024 · Painted Lady butterflies migrate from North Africa to Europe and from Mexico to the US and Canada. Migration is triggered by temperature changes below 15°C and shorter daylight periods. Butterflies travel up to 500 kilometers per day at altitudes up to 1,000 meters.
The findings, published in the journal Ecography this week, also revealed that the species undertakes a phenomenal 9,000 mile round trip from tropical Africa to the Arctic Circle – almost double the length of the migrations undertaken by Monarch butterflies in North America.
Scientists discovered that the Painted Lady did indeed migrate south each autumn but made this return journey at high altitude out of view of butterfly observers on the ground. Radar records revealed that Painted Ladies fly at an average altitude of over 500 metres on their southbound trip and can clock up speeds of 30 mph by selecting ...
25 cze 2024 · Highlights• In a world-first, an international team of scientists demonstrated that Painted Lady butterflies (Vanessa cardui) flew at least 4,200 km over the ocean from West Africa to French Guiana, South America.•
