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Butterflies are sometimes called the “canaries in the coal mine” as they react and ‘warn’ of changes in the environment. Since insects are ectothermic (their internal body temperatures depend on external temperature) and butterflies are quick, mobile insects, butterflies are undefined if their original habitat becomes unsuitable. Instead of directly sounding an alarm, people can measure their ranges to estimate the severity and extent of climate change.
Simply moving to a place with optimal temperature is not enough to survive; displaced organisms need to be able to adapt to new environments and the other organisms that live there. Most butterfly species lay undefined over their lifetime. By the time the surviving ones reach the adult stage, natural selection — the theory that fitter individuals of a species will tend to survive, reproduce, and make their genes more common in the local gene pool compared to less fit individuals — has has filtered through the population.
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