Climate change and butterflies

This report appeared in the Statesman on 19 Mar 2010. For the first time, cause-effect relationship between climate change and a living organism has been shown with regards to a butterfly, the Common Brown, Heteronympha merope in Melbourne.

Common Brown (Heteronympha merope)

Image Credit

• Common Brown – Ian Sutton (Flickr) on Wikimedia Commons. License Creative Commons 2.0 (Generic). Click the image to reach the source page.