{"id":6127,"date":"2018-06-13T12:10:56","date_gmt":"2018-06-13T16:10:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/?p=6127"},"modified":"2018-07-10T12:38:27","modified_gmt":"2018-07-10T16:38:27","slug":"painted-lady-butterflies-survive-round-trip-across-the-sahara","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/painted-lady-butterflies-survive-round-trip-across-the-sahara\/","title":{"rendered":"Painted Lady butterflies survive round-trip across the Sahara<img src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/canada_flag_icon_small.gif\">"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers demonstrate that the Painted Lady butterfly (<em>Vanessa cardui<\/em>) crosses the Sahara Desert and the Mediterranean twice, travelling south to the sub-Sahara in the fall, then reversing the journey the following spring. The Palearctic\u2013African migratory circuit is similar to that of migratory birds. However, the Painted Lady butterfly, which needs\u00a0both temperate and tropical habitats to complete its multigenerational lifecycle, is one of the few insects known to survive an annual trans-Saharan circuit.<br \/>\n<em>Biology Letters<\/em><br \/>\n<strong>Published\u00a0June\u00a013, 2018<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/rsbl.royalsocietypublishing.org\/lookup\/doi\/10.1098\/rsbl.2018.0274\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>URL after publication<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\n<strong>Canadian co-author:<\/strong> Cl\u00e9ment Bataille, University of Ottawa &#8211;\u00a0<a>cbataill@uOttawa.ca<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers demonstrate that the Painted Lady butterfly (Vanessa cardui) crosses the Sahara Desert and the Mediterranean twice, travelling south to the sub-Sahara in the fall, then reversing the journey the following spring. The Palearctic\u2013African migratory circuit is similar to that of migratory birds. However, the Painted Lady butterfly, which needs\u00a0both temperate and tropical habitats to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1327,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-scientifique","category-paper-of-interest"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4DqbN-1AP","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6127"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6127\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6171,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6127\/revisions\/6171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}