All the latest in environmental issues
Mar 03, 2021
2 minutes
COMPILED BY TERRY ROBSON
Very hungry, angry caterpillars
onarch butterflies are famously archetypal of their species. Their preferred food is milkweed and researchers wanted to see what happens when food is scarce for monarch caterpillars. At their hungriest, a monarch caterpillar can consume a milkweed leaf in five minutes. The researchers built an open milkweed garden that they grew without chemical additives that
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