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Warm autumns could be a driver in monarch butterflies’ decline

Warmer autumns cause eastern monarchs to reproduce early during migration, increasing male mortality risk by 88%, researchers report in Royal Society Open Science.

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In the lab, higher temperatures during fall migration led monarchs to break their reproductive pause, increasing their risk of death.
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The more toastumous fall weather could cause the Monarch butterflies to migrate to place them and change their flight plans, starting the countdown towards death. Eastern monarchs captured during their fall migration and exposed to warm temperatures in the laboratory came out of their breeding hiatus [...]

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