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Wings of Change: help us learn how butterfly wings vary with their environment
Learn moreIt's pretty simple. We give you a photograph of a butterfly and you take a few measurements.
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Message from the researcher
“Wherever sufficiently numerous series of the remains of any given group, which has endured for a long space of time, are carefully examined, their morphological relations are never in discordance with the requirements of the doctrine of evolution, and often afford convincing evidence of it. ”
― Thomas Henry Huxley
About Pieris Project
The Pieris Project is a citizen science project working with the public to study one of the most abundant and widespread butterflies on the planet - the cabbage white butterfly. As an agricultural pest it recently invaded many parts of the world and we want to use this opportunity (global invasion) to learn how the environment alters the wings and even the genes of this extraordinarily interesting butterfly. That's where you can help! Citizen scientists (including you if you catch some) are helping collect this butterfly from all over the world. Through Zooniverse, you can help measure the "morphological" variation - the shape and color differences - of this butterfly. Using your measurements we can explore how morphological variation is influenced by environmental factors.
You can also help by collecting butterflies - visit pierisproject.org to learn more.