North American monarch butterflies use magnetic fields to migrate to and from their overwintering sites - using cold temperatures to tune how they use magnetic fields - per experimental study, which might be disrupted under climate change
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Migratory monarch butterflies use magnetic field cues to guide them during migration and refuel during the trip by nectaring on flowers.
view moreCredit: Patrick A. Guerra, CC-BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)
North American monarch butterflies use magnetic fields to migrate to and from their overwintering sites - using cold temperatures to tune how they use magnetic fields - per experimental study, which might be disrupted under climate change
Article URL: http://plos.io/4fhCt8X
Article title: Monarch butterflies (Danaus plexippus) only use magnetic cues for migratory directionality with orientation re-calibrated by coldness
Author countries: U.S.
Funding: The author(s) received no specific funding for this work.
Journal
PLOS One
Article Title
Monarch butterflies (Danaus plexippus) only use magnetic cues for migratory directionality with orientation re-calibrated by coldness
Article Publication Date
13-Aug-2025
Hypothetical neural circuit of the environmentally-tuned monarch magnetic compass.
Credit
Guerra et al., 2025, PLOS One, CC-BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)
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