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Gauteng's butterfly skies

"It's difficult to feel the 1.1°C post-industrial temperature increase …

Each year around mid-summer, somewhere between December and mid-January, the skies of South Africa’s Gauteng province, including the city of Johannesburg, fill with small white butterflies. Some land in people’s gardens, allowing a closer look at the thin brown markings on their wings. Those markings give the butterflies their name: the brownveined white butterfly (Benenois aurota).

Their annual migration takes between 80 000 and 155 000 butterflies

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