Jo Nagai was raising swallowtail butterflies at his home in Kobe, Japan, when he noticed something odd. The ones he had looked after as caterpillars seemed to recognize him. Wild butterflies fled. His didn't.
He was in second grade. He wrote a four-page letter to Dr. Martha Weiss, an entomologist at Georgetown University who had studied whether moths could retain memories through metamorphosis. He asked if she could help him design a version of her experiment for butterflies.
She said yes.
Using a muscle therapy device, Jo trained caterpillars to associate the scent of lavender with a mild vibration. When the caterpillars became butterflies, 70 per cent of them still avoided the lavender. Their brains had been completely rebuilt during metamorphosis. The memory survived anyway.
Then he bred them.
The offspring, which had never been trained, also avoided lavender. So did their grandchildren. Without ever experiencing the vibration, two generations of butterflies inherited an aversion to a scent their grandmother had been taught to fear.
Jo documented it all in a 33-page research paper and presented his findings at the International Congress of Entomology in Kobe in 2024. He was 10.
A second grader wrote a letter to a Georgetown professor, and together they found evidence that butterflies can pass memories down through generations.
-Wilderness Whisper
@nicksortor@elonmusk This guy is mental unstable, narrow-minded, myopic unreasonable and illogical. I think his behavior has a direct correlation with him being associated to Tim Walz who is equally unstable, narrow-minded, myopic, unreasonable and illogical.
@nicksortor@elonmusk USA NEEDS MORE MENTAL INSTITUTIONS. There are a lot of people like this employee of Tim Walz who needs to be given mental heath services! BTW, Tim Walz needs to be admitted as well!
They had to destroy ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine."
"Because if they had acknowledged that it's effective in anybody, the whole $200 billion vaccine enterprise would have collapsed."
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