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The timing of seasonal events such as flowering and migration is changing as the climate warms, reshuffling the order in which such events take place each year. Now research sheds light on the causes of changes in the timing of butterfly emergence.

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Figure 1: Duke of Burgundy butterflies.

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  1. Robert J. Wilson is at the Centre for Ecology and Conservation, University of Exeter, Cornwall Campus, Penryn, Cornwall TR10 9EZ, UK,

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  2. David B. Roy is Head of the Biological Records Centre, Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, Maclean Building, Benson Lane, Wallingford, Oxfordshire OX10 8BB, UK,

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Wilson, R., Roy, D. Butterflies reset the calendar. Nature Clim Change 1, 101–102 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1038/nclimate1087

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