This is a male fantasy, one male for forty females.....but wait it's butterflies we are talking about.
The fact that female butterflies could even find mates in the presence of male-killing Wolbachia stunned scientists. In some islands there was only one male for every 40 females. One would expect this type of sex imbalance to leave females deprived of a mate, explains Hurst.“To our knowledge we’ve never heard of female promiscuity being caused by fewer males,” he says.
What were they supposed to do remain childless spinsters? That ain't natural.
Another example of the birds and the bees, well butterflies anyways, and polyandry
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