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The other butterfly effect: A youth reporter finds out how monarchs fight their own parasites

on Nov 25, 2014

Jaap de Roode is a biologist who studies parasites and their hosts — particularly Monarch butterflies. At TEDYouth 2014, he spoke about Monarch butterflies, their self-medicating ingenuity — and what that ingenuity can help humans discover. Lubna Batool, an 11th-grade New Yorker, was fascinated. On site at TEDYouth, with a dozen monarch butterflies flapping about […]

What happens when prisoners breed butterflies

By Kate Torgovnick May

on Aug 9, 2012

An endangered species of butterfly has found an unusual set of champions — the inmates of the Mission Creek Corrections Center for Women in Washington. While the number of Taylor’s checkerspot butterflies has dwindled in Washington in recent years, the Mission Creek inmates are working hard to help the species rebound, reports the Nature magazine […]

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The other butterfly effect: A youth reporter finds out how monarchs fight their own parasites

What happens when prisoners breed butterflies