Lukas VFN 🇪🇺<p>Research on glasswing butterflies remaps their evolutionary tree <a href="https://phys.org/news/2025-07-glasswing-butterflies-remaps-evolutionary-tree.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">phys.org/news/2025-07-glasswin</span><span class="invisible">g-butterflies-remaps-evolutionary-tree.html</span></a> paper by Eva van der Heijden et al.: <a href="https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2410939122" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2410</span><span class="invisible">939122</span></a></p><p>"in glasswing <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/butterflies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>butterflies</span></a>, even the most closely related species produce different <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/pheromones" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>pheromones</span></a>. Given that all of these butterflies look the same (to convey to <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/birds" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>birds</span></a> that they are toxic), this allows them to find a compatible mate... They can undergo rapid radiation, where many new species arise from the same ancestor in a short period of time"</p>