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How do monarch butterflies steer by the sun all day?

Monarchs from the northern US and Canada fly south to Mexico by the sun.

To keep heading south as the sun crosses the sky, a monarch keeps changing its angle to it, using a body clock that tracks the hour.

A 2009 study found that clock likely sits in the antennae, set by daylight. When researchers painted the antennae black to block light, the clock went wrong, and so did the angle: they flew north.

Source: pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

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