Here is some more proof, this time butter flies. OOPs butter never flies? Butterflies!
Monarch butterflies seem to “treat” their unborn offspring for a parasitic infection by laying the eggs on a plant that helps fight the illness, a new study suggests.
Infected butterflies “prefer to lay their eggs on plants that will make their offspring less sick, suggesting that monarchs have evolved the ability to medicate their offspring,” said Jaap de Roode, an evolutionary biologist with Emory University in Atlanta, Ga., who led the research.
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