Did you know that monarch butterflies can travel up to 50–100 miles a day? Multiply that number by about two months, and you’ve calculated the distance it takes monarchs to migrate to Mexico. Millions of monarchs partake in the massive migration from the regions of the US and Canada to arrive in Mexico to hibernate.
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This is a migrating Monarch butterfly feeding on a wildflower at an urban park in the city of San Antonio, Texas. Photo by: Gabriel Perez
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According to the US Forest Service, monarch butterflies are the only known of its species to make a two-way migration. Contrary to other butterflies, monarch populations migrate to Mexico to escape the winter season in the northern climates. NPR explains that cold, damp weather is considered fatal for monarchs, while hotter, drier summers alter their habitats in the north. 2020, however, saw a 26% decline from the year prior in migration patterns identified in a report from the World Wildlife Fu
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Monarch butterflies rest on a tree at El Rosario sanctuary, in El Rosario, in Michoacan state, Mexico February 11, 2021. The population of monarch butterflies that arrived in Mexico s forests to hibe
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The population of monarch butterflies that arrived in Mexico's forests to hibernate this winter fell 26% from a year earlier, the country's Commission for National Protect