Climate News Network: British researchers are using insect specimens kept in museums for a century and a quarter to learn more about climate change and the steady move towards the earlier annual arrival of spring.
Thousands of butterfly specimens, some collected in the UK as long ago as 1876, are being used to extend the reach of phenological research, or the study of the timing of recurring natural events and seasons.
The researchers, whose work is centered on the UK's Natural History Museum in London and the University...