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Migrations of Butterflies

Nature volume 118, pages 118–119 (1926)Cite this article

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IN NATURE of April 11, 1925, p. 535, I gave an account of certain annual movements of the Painted Lady Butterfly (Pyrameis cardui) and ascribed them to a deliberate migratory effort on the part of the insect.

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WILLIAMS, C. Migrations of Butterflies. Nature 118, 118–119 (1926). https://doi.org/10.1038/118118a0

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