Migrating butterflies monarch butterfly

Monarchs migrate annually over long distances. In North America, monarch butterfly migrates southward from August until the first frost. Northern birds migrate in the spring. In Australia, they migrate to cooler places.

The duration of the flight is much more time of their life: born in the early summer, butterflies live about two months, which is not enough for the migration to the destination.





Last summer generation reproduction phase comes into diabase, after which individual can live up to seven months. At this time, the butterfly reaches the one of the many places where they can spend the winter.



They do not produce offspring until they leave the place of hibernation in February and March. During the spring migration of monarch butterfly flies from the far north through east of the Rocky Mountains and into Oklahoma and Texas.









The second, third and fourth generation of the spring back into the northern regions of the US and Canada.





How different generations manage to get back to where wintered their ancestors, still remains a mystery to scientists.



Monarch butterfly - one of the few insects capable of making flights across the Atlantic Ocean.





It is becoming more common butterfly because of the expanding use milkweed as ornamental and garden plants.





Monarch butterfly, born in Bermuda remain on them throughout the year because of the mild stable climate.





Monarchs can be found in the far south-west of the UK, in Bennington, the Far East, New Zealand, North Africa and the Hawaiian Islands.





This species is poisonous and disgusting taste for the birds because of the food (milkweed) which eat caterpillars preserving poisons leaves (that poisonous caterpillars show their bright colors.



The colonies of butterflies that are in suspended animation to survive because the hungry bird looking for less toxic butterflies for receiving food.