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[brooksmoses]

A costume designer who raises Monarch butterflies as a hobby uses a bit of rubber cement and spare butterfly wings to repair the wing of a butterfly that severely damaged its wings coming out of its chrysalis -- and it works.

I had no idea this was possible. Apparently neither did she until a friend sent her a video of someone else doing it, but now we know!

Comments

[abracanabra]

Wow, that's amazing.

[carbonel]

It kind of makes sense.

In the other direction, I was surprised to discover (by spending a day on the prairie with a researcher from the Minnesota Zoo) that butterflies are tagged by putting a numbered sticker on the wing. I would have though it would bother them somehow, but apparently not.

[johnpalmer]

That's amazingly geeky and geekily amazing ,and I love it!