Call it the cuckoo of butterflies. Like the well-known birds, the Alcon blue butterfly has found a way to get others to raise its offspring. Researchers in Denmark report that the large blue butterfly ...

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A beautiful butterfly is able to fool ants into rearing its young by masking them with the ants’ own smell, say researchers. Caterpillars of the alcon blue butterfly have developed an outer coat that ...