One Mexican reserves for the winter more than a billion butterflies arrive Bashny.Net

Four thousand kilometers without a compass and karty

on the territory of the Mexican states of Michoacan and Mexico City is located Monarch Butterfly Biosphere Reserve, which is known for the fact that it hibernate butterfly monarch butterfly species, is considered one of the most beautiful insects of the planet.



Located at an altitude of 3 thousand meters environmental complex was established in 1980 by decree of President Jose Lopez Portillo of Mexico specifically for the conservation of Danaus plexippus, and from the end of October to March are waiting for the heat and multiply by 60 million to a billion of these insects. Monarchs - the only butterflies that every year make long flights from north to south and vice versa, but none of butterflies not overcome all the way entirely - the life expectancy of insects ranging from two to seven months, so that the north-south flying one generation, and in the other direction - is the following. For scientists it remains a mystery, as the monarchs find their way to winter, which were used by their ancestors, because some of butterflies fly about 4 thousand kilometers - not everyone is capable of, not having lost the way to overcome that distance, even in the car and in the presence of a GPS-navigator .





A high concentration of these insects on a relatively small area, due to the fact that in the highlands of Mexico fly all the monarch butterfly that live in two US states - Texas and Oklahoma. In the midst of winter the number of Danaus plexippus in the forests of the reserve is so great that sag under the weight of their branches, but because of the orange wings countless insects can not see the foliage. Observing the pairing monarchs in Mexico do not find the words to describe this breathtaking spectacle - millions of bright butterflies, rising into the air, overshadows the sunlight.

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