The metamorphosis of squishy little caterpillar to magnificent butterfly is so radical that you’d think little could remain of the creature’s previous life. But in a neat paper, scientists are reporting this evening
The caterpillars learned to avoid the odor—they inched their way down the arm of a Y-shaped contraption that did not have the odor, avoiding the arm that did. Once the caterpillar had morphed into a moth, the moth made the same choice, flying away from the aroma associated with a jolt.
The memory survives the radical transformation of crawling caterpillar to flying moth, the sci
And I can’t remember to pick up a carton of milk on my way home.
