Butterflies Need More Than Flowers to Survive: The Importance of Sizeable Spaces for Their Conservation

Spatial learning is known in insects, but much of the research has focused on ant and bee species which live socially in a communal nest. This study provides the first direct evidence of spatial learning in butterflies or moths, and suggests that complex learning skills, such as the use of spatial information, may be more common in insects than previously thought.

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