Winter road salting reshapes next summer’s butterflies

Anti-ice treatments can have sex-specific effects

SALTED  Monarch butterflies that weren’t even alive during the winter can show the physiological effects of road salting if caterpillars fed on milkweeds that picked up extra sodium. 

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Salting roads in winter can tweak the physiques of butterflies the next summer.