Decades of data reveal hurricanes' unexpected benefit to rare Florida butterfly

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Feb 6, 2025, 3:05 pm112 pts
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…

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