New York City veterinarians performed a wing transplant procedure on a monarch butterfly in a video that's since gone viral.
The one easy part was that butterfly's have no nerve endings in their upper wings. There are no blood vessels either.
The tiny traveler underwent a wild new surgery to receive a replacement wing from a similarly sized dead butterfly at Sweetbriar Nature Center, footage shows.
An injured monarch butterfly was given a second chance at life after undergoing a delicate wing transplant at a Long Island wildlife rehabilitation center. Since the Sweetbriar Nature Center ...
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Monarch butterfly wing transplant.

A New York wildlife team performed a delicate wing transplant on an injured monarch butterfly, helping it fly again and ...
A monarch butterfly with a broken wing was miraculously able to fly again after it underwent a wing transplant at a nature preserve.
You've probably seen monarch butterflies, and maybe monarch caterpillars, but there's a lot to learn about the monarch life cycle stages.
A Long Island nature center gave a monarch butterfly a new wing, allowing it to continue its migration this winter.
SAN DIEGO (FOX 5/KUSI) — A team of researchers at the University of California, San Diego have discovered a unique way to analyze the extent of fibrosis using butterfly wings. The team specifically ...