Episode 75: Shrinking Monarchs

<p>This episode explores new research, which has found that the wing length of the monarch butterfly has evolved in response to migration habits.</p> <p>---</p> <p>Read this episode’s science poem <a href='https://thepoetryofscience.scienceblog.com/1613/shrinking-monarchs/'>here</a>.</p> <p>Read the scientific study that inspired it <a href='https://www.pnas.org/content/early/2020/10/27/2001283117'>here</a>.</p> <p>Read ‘of a butterfly in el barrio or a stranger in paradise’ by Jesús Papoleto Meléndez <a href='https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/56794/of-a-butterfly-in-el-barrio-or-a-stranger-in-paradise'>here</a>.</p> <p>---</p> <p>Music by <a href='http://smarturl.it/thepaperwaits'>Rufus Beckett</a>.</p> <p>---</p> <p>Follow Sam on social media and send in any questions or comments for the podcast:</p> <p> </p> <p>Email: <a href='mailto:sam.illingworth@gmail.com'>sam.illingworth@gmail.com</a>   Twitter: <a href='https://twitter.com/samillingworth'>@samillingworth</a>  </p>