Zizeeria maha

This is called the pale grass blue butterfly in English. In Fukushima, two months after the nuclear incident, they found that the caterpillars that had been hibernating had developed mutations as adult butterflies. They brought them to a facility in Okinawa, Japan; too far from the site to sense radiation in the area and bred them. The young carried mutations from their parents, meaning that they might have genetic mutations (though the possibility of nuclear stuff in the adults bodies affecting their gametes and being grown in their young was not discussed in the article). The descendants of the non-captured butterflies in Fukushima are also mutants. Thus in a way Fukushima pale grass blue butterflies are distinct from their predecessors and wider population. Pale grass blue butterflies also have a subset of butterflies that temporarily change wing color in Aomori, Japan.https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-19245818 The abnormalities apparent in the laboratory appear to be mostly detrimental, disabling mutations of slightly misshapen body parts and other hassles.https://www.livescience.com/22353-mutant-butterflies-japan-fukushima-disaster.html
== References ==
Category:Butterflies from Honshu Island
Category:Nuclear mutants