Natural History » butterfly http://www.scarcliff.com/natural-history Tue, 05 Jul 2011 03:58:08 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Butterflies Trick Ants Into Raising Young http://www.scarcliff.com/natural-history/2008/01/butterflies-trick-ants-into-raising-young/ http://www.scarcliff.com/natural-history/2008/01/butterflies-trick-ants-into-raising-young/#comments Fri, 04 Jan 2008 01:51:13 +0000 Brent http://www.scarcliff.com/natural-history/2008/01/butterflies-trick-ants-into-raising-young/ Continue reading →]]> Call it the cuckoo of butterflies. Like the well-known birds, the Alcon blue butterfly has found a way to get others to raise its offspring. Researchers in Denmark report that the large blue butterfly has managed to produce larvae with a chemical coating similar to that of the local Myrmica rubra ants.

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