Spangles Healing Lodge

Hello again
After 2 weeks of recharging my batteries, I'm topped up and ready to go xx

My beautiful friend Jane shares this with me, and my hat popped straight on, its amazing what we learn as tiny people, even before we are born and carry those beliefs forward.

But for this story, a young boy, who was curious and asked Why?

🦋🧠 A 10-year-old boy helped answer a question that had puzzled scientists for years.
Could a butterfly remember something it learned as a caterpillar?
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In Japan, an elementary school student named Jo Nagai carried out an experiment that caught the attention of scientists around the world.
Working with entomologist Dr. Martha Weiss, Jo carefully raised swallowtail caterpillars and trained them to avoid the scent of lavender by pairing it with an unpleasant experience.
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Then came the incredible part.
The caterpillars formed chrysalises and underwent one of nature's most extraordinary transformations.
They became butterflies.
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For many years, people assumed that metamorphosis completely reset an insect's brain.
But when the butterflies finally emerged...
They still avoided the same lavender scent they had learned to dislike as caterpillars.
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Jo documented his observations in a detailed 33-page study, helping provide evidence that some memories can survive the dramatic changes of complete metamorphosis.
His work supported the idea that an insect's nervous system is not entirely rebuilt from scratch during this remarkable transformation.
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At just 10 years old, Jo showed something powerful.
You don't have to be an adult to contribute to science.
Sometimes...
Curiosity, patience, and careful observation are enough to help answer questions that have fascinated researchers for generations.
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Great discoveries don't always begin in a laboratory.
Sometimes...
They begin with a child who simply keeps asking "Why?"
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Today, it was Doras turn to recharge her batteries, she was feeling perky this morning, Mr Pickle Pear came for a stroll, and of course Elsa was vocal!

To continue my R&R holiday,
a lovely long nana nap, and sip with a view

Absolutely no work at all today, im reminding myself how to relax and chill!
Who knew was an author?

Thank you all

I am taking a little break, all messages will be answered Tuesday July 14th

Off to recharge my batteries, in the land of limited signal 😁