How Butterflies Pick the Perfect Leaf
A cloud of smell rises from a bruised fruit stall while a manicured garden releases a quieter, floral mix. For a butterfly, both are data streams. Yet in this noisy chemical crowd, it still lands on a single leaf that will decide whether its larvae live or die.The trick lies in hardware and software working together. On the hardware side, butterflies carry dense arrays of chemoreceptors on their a...More
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