ButterfliesBc: Butterfly (Boloria chariclea) Measurements
In tessington/qsci381: Data used in QSCI 381, University of Washington

Measurements for a sample of butterflies in Greenland

A data frame with 32 observations on the following 4 variables.

Temp: Average temperature for preceding summer (Celsius)
Wing: Average wing length (mm)
Sex: Female or Male
Species: all are Bc, Boloria chariclea

Scientists measured wing length of a species of butterfly, Boloria chariclea (Bc), in Greenland each year from 1996 through 2013. They also recorded summer temperatures.

Digitized data from plots in Bowden, J. et al., "High-Arctic butterflies become smaller with rising temperatures", published in Biology Letters 11: 20150574

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