Butterfly Migration

Join the #butterflymigration family! We are hosting a 1 hour online open #workshops to learn about migratory butterflies and how to use the Butterfly Migration #app. Sign up for free by filling the form, including your name and the selected date. Check the calendar!

A migratory divide in insects! 🦋 Vanessa cardui butterflies migrate in opposite directions in the Northern and Southern hemispheres 🌍, a pattern driven by a chromosomal inversion 🧬 Paper @NatureComms doi.org/10.1038/s41467… #insectmigration #migratorydivide #evolution

Check out our new paper, "Isotope geolocation and population genomics in Vanessa cardui: Short- and long-distance migrants are genetically undifferentiated," out in PNAS Nexus! doi.org/10.1093/pnasne…

Super stoked to share our latest research on the migratory patterns of painted lady butterflies across the Sahara! 🦋🏜️ cell.com/iscience/fullt…

How did the Quaternary ice ages shape W Palearctic biodiversity? Using 31,000+🧬sequences of ~500 butterfly🦋 species we objectively identified glacial refugia, colonization routes, and dispersal barriers at an unprecedented level! Out in @ScienceAdvances! doi.org/10.1126/sciadv…

New study! We demonstrate a transatlantic flight for Vanessa cardui butterflies. An incredible feat for insects! Read the full paper here: nature.com/articles/s4146… #insectmigration #butterflymigration #PhyloMigrationLab @IBB_botanic @CSIC

New paper! Using pollen DNA metabarcoding, citizen science and remote sensing we track origin and movements of the massive 2019 #PaintedLady butterfly outbreak. 🦋🌍 #ButterflyMigration #InsectMigration #vanessacardui #PhyloMigrationLab @IBB_botanic

Swarms of painted ladies that descended on the Middle East, northern Africa and Europe have been traced to their source go.nature.com/3XeiscG

New paper! Butterfly communities in Spain & the UK use different mechanisms to alter their body temperature- while Spanish butterflies change their posture relative to the sun, British butterflies rely on microclimates. Great work led by Eric Toro-Delgado doi.org/10.1111/1365-2…

Fishing the sky! Back from a thrilling 3-week journey aboard #NationalGeographicExplorer in #SouthAmerica studying insects dispersing over the sea and the #AmazonRiver @LindbladExp @NatGeo @InsideNatGeo @IBB_botanic @CSIC #InsectMigration #Biodiversity #Research

What a wonderful book by @elvirawerkman and Maxime Beck! Highly recommended 👏 Find it here 👇 elvirawerkman.nl/webshop/

After ~7 yr of work, it's finally out! We present a molecular phylogeny of butterflies sampling >90% of genera & >2000 spp. Butterflies emerged ~100 million yr ago in North America and first fed on legumes. Thanks to all 87 co-authors from 28 countries! rdcu.be/dcaVU

[Thread] New paper out in @molecology on the relationship between DNA methylation and gene expression in the migratory painted lady butterfly! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/me… (Pic by @niclasbackstrom)

The last leg of the longest butterfly migration has now been identified sciencenews.org/article/painte…

“Found at last”: An international collaboration led by @GerardTalavera from the #PhyloMigrationLab @IBB_botanic has identified the last leg of the longest butterfly migration. See the full paper in PNAS: pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

Did you know that your hair can pick up metals from the environment? Well, it seems that butterfly wings can too! Check out our new paper to learn more! doi.org/10.3389/fevo.2… Short description of the paper below: 1/13

So excited to share my first senior-author paper led by the amazing Eve Lindroos🦋"Temporal stability of δ2H in insect tissues: Implications for isotope-based geographic assignments" frontiersin.org/articles/10.33…

A new study comparing 97 genomes reveals high genetic diversity and demographic stability in migratory butterflies. Revisiting insect migratory population dynamics in García-Berro et al. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11… #insectmigration #butterflymigration #phylomigrationlab @IBB_botanic

Gene family expansions and detailed recombination map for Vanessa cardui. A step further in the study of migration genomics in butterflies! Led by @ShipilinaD @KNasvall sciencedirect.com/science/articl… #insectmigration #butterflymigration #genomics #vanessacardui #paintedlady

New preprint led by Aurora García-Berro @IBB_botanic on the population dynamics of migratory butterflies. #butterflymigration #insectmigration #vanessacardui "Migratory behavior is positively associated with genetic diversity in butterflies" biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

El papallonari: un nou espai polivalent al #phylomigrationlab @IBB_botanic per a recerca i divulgació. Visites obertes via @aajbb_info i el projecte @b_migration. #cienciaciutadana #recerca #papallones @FECYT_Ciencia @museuciencies @CSICCat