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Monarch Butterfly
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Every Fall and Spring
The
monarch's annual passage down the East Coast is a harbinger
of the Holiday Season. Countless of the orange and black creatures east
of the Rocky Mountains decorate fall trees like colorful Christmas
ornaments as they move toward the Gulf Coast and Mexico. Butterflies
west of the Rockies migrate, too, but to the California
coast, between Los Angeles and San Francisco. The
monarch migration is a generational one, which means
it takes multiple generations for the migration cycle to become complete.
In the fall, it's possible that the same butterfly will travel from Wisconsin to Mexico, a distance of several thousand miles , it's a wonder the butterflies don't arrive in tatters. They probably would if they had to flap their way the entire trip. Instead, like birds, they use high altitude air currents to carry them for a distance, come down to feed, then take off again. Monarchs do not fly at night.
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