In Kobe, a ten-year-old who hand-raised swallowtails trained his caterpillars to hate the smell of lavender, then watched the butterflies avoid it after metamorphosis and wrote the result up in a 33-page report
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The question that started it was the kind only a child would take seriously enough to test. Jo Nagai, an elementary schooler in Kobe, Japan, had been hand-raising Asian swallowtail butterflies since he was small, and he noticed that when he released them, his butterflies behaved wrongly. Wild swallowtails flee from people. His would circle in the air and come back, sometimes landing on his hand.
Which made him wonder: did they remember him? And if a butterfly could remember its caterpillar da
Which made him wonder: did they remember him? And if a butterfly could remember its caterpillar da
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