LiveScience: Butterfly populations in Massachusetts have shifted north over the past two decades likely in response to climate change, new research shows. Species that are used to subtropical and warm climates, such as the giant swallowtail and zabulon skipper, were rare or absent in Massachusetts in the late 1980s. But now these butterflies are showing up in high numbers in the state, the Harvard study found. Meanwhile, more than three quarters of northerly species, usually found north of Boston, seem to be...
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