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A small miracle has just fluttered by

31 January 2020 - 08:00 By Dave Chambers
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SA skies are full of brown-veined white butterflies on their annual migration.
SA skies are full of brown-veined white butterflies on their annual migration.
Image: 123RF/Diederick Jacobus Luus

Amid the spectacle of this week’s mass butterfly migration, it’s easy to lose sight of the small miracle that each insect embodies.

But US scientists have helped to restore our sense of wonder - and it could be very useful to us.

 

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