Monarch Butterflies facts
While investigating facts about Monarch Butterflies Migration and Monarch Butterflies Mexico, I found out little known, but curios details like:
The monarch butterfly’s life span is 2 to 6 weeks, except every 4th generation lives from 6 to 8 months so they can travel all the way down from Canada/USA to Mexico and back
how monarch butterflies migrate?
More than 90 percent of the monarch butterfly population has vanished in the last 25 years.
What monarch butterflies eat?
In my opinion, it is useful to put together a list of the most interesting details from trusted sources that I've come across answering what monarch butterflies live. Here are 35 of the best facts about Monarch Butterflies Santa Cruz and Monarch Butterflies In California I managed to collect.
when are the monarch butterflies at pismo beach?
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Monarch butterflies seem to remember an ancient mountain that used to stand where Lake Superior is now, and they still veer around that long-gone obstacle during their migration flight across the lake.
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The migration route of the Monarch Butterfly still takes an eastward turn over Lake Superior, then a few miles later takes a southward turn, in order to avoid a mountain that once existed there millennia ago.
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Most birds dislike the taste of monarch butterflies because they still contain poisons from when they were caterpillars (monarch caterpillars' favorite meal is poisonous milkweed).
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Vermont's state bird is the hermit thrush and its state butterfly is the Monarch butterfly.
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Alabama's state insect is the Monarch Butterfly, but the state butterfly is the Eastern Tiger Swallowtail
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Red Rock State Park is often graced with the migration path of the Monarch butterflies each year.
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Various butterfly and moth species can be found in Costa Rica and Chirripo National Park including the green page moth, owl butterfly, violet sabrewing, monarch butterfly, and chestnut headed oropendola.
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Butterfly weed is host plant for the Monarch butterfly. Caterpillars use leaves of butterfly weed as a basic source of food until they transform into butterflies.
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West Virginia's state bird is the cardinal and the state butterfly is the Monarch butterfly.
Why monarch butterflies are important?
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The state bird is the common loon, the state insect is the Monarch butterfly, and the state fish is the walleye.
Caterpillars of monarch butterfly eat leaves of milkweed and collect toxins in the body. Toxins remain in the body after transformation of caterpillars into the butterflies and provide protection from birds and other predators.
Monarch butterfly caterpillars live off of Milkweed, which is toxic and should kill them. They store it in their bodies and while becoming a butterfly the toxic is transferred to their wings as a defense mechanism - source
The Monarch butterfly migrates all the way from Mexico to Canada during spring. Then it's offspring flies back in autumn.
Alabama's state insect is the monarch butterfly.
When monarch butterflies hatch?
Monarch butterfly wings can be repaired with some glue if damaged to help the pollinators' long migration
How monarch butterflies evolved to eat poison?
There is a organization that will send you free seeds to plant to help repopulate the disappearing Monarch Butterflies
Every fall, the North American Monarch butterfly migrates over 3,000 miles south to wait out the winter in central Mexico. They congregating on a handful of mountain peaks, huddling together by the millions on the branches of oyamel fir trees. Then they return north to mate and lay eggs.
A species of Dragonfly has a global population, and migrates almost twice the distance of a Monarch Butterfly
The common milkweed is not just for monarch butterflies. It can be used for food, for pillow and jacket filling, for making twine.
Monarch butterflies may be on the way to extinction. GMO crops are being sprayed with Monsanto's Roundup herbicide, decimating milkweed, which is the only plant Monarch caterpillars live on.
