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16 de oct. de 2017 · October 16, 2017. • 8 min read. Each fall, millions of monarch butterflies leave their summer breeding grounds in the northeastern U.S. and Canada and travel upwards of 3,000 miles to reach...
16 de mar. de 2021 · Learn about the impressive and endangered migration of the Eastern monarch butterfly, which flies up to 2,500 miles from the US and Canada to Mexico. Find out how WWF and partners are working to protect their habitat and how you can help.
22 de mar. de 2024 · The recapture of marked butterflies has revealed that they can travel as far as 130 km (80 miles) in one day. The longest distance recorded thus far for the complete flight of a migrant monarch butterfly is 3,010 km (1,870 miles).
Migration and Overwintering. The annual migration of North America’s monarch butterfly is a unique and amazing phenomenon. The monarch is the only butterfly known to make a two-way migration as birds do. Unlike other butterflies that can overwinter as larvae, pupae, or even as adults in some species, monarchs cannot survive the cold winters ...
Monarch butterfly migration is the phenomenon, mainly across North America, where the subspecies Danaus plexippus plexippus migrates each autumn to overwintering sites on the West Coast of California or mountainous sites in Central Mexico. Other populations from around the world perform minor migrations or none at all.
We hope you enjoy this interactive map which shows the amazing migrations of monarch butterflies. You can see where they fly, the urgent threats they are facing, and how your support is expanding innovative solutions to help monarchs and other butterflies survive.
