The Absolute Worst Thing About Butterflies

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Who doesn’t love to gaze at a beautiful butterfly fluttering by? Aesthetically speaking, they are simply wonderful to watch. Wonderful, that is, unless you are getting a rare glimpse of pheromone laced coremata.

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Sources:
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/0022519375901113?via%3Dihub
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspb.1996.0207
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/349161804_Scent_glands_in_Lepidoptera_Coremata
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2124467/

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