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Monarch butterfly just flew by on way to central
Oct 13, 2022, 2:09 PM
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Mexico.
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I wonder if he will be able to get across the border?***
Oct 13, 2022, 2:18 PM
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In the Spring is when they have to get back in.***
Oct 13, 2022, 2:19 PM
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hiiiiiiiiiiiiiiijjo!!!***
Oct 13, 2022, 2:20 PM
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Their life cycle is one of the most amazing stories anywhere
Oct 13, 2022, 2:51 PM
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Google it. TLDR; when one shows up here, he/she is coming back to his ancestor's home, which he has never seen before. Same when his great grandchild goes back to Mexico a few months later. MissTulsa got into it, keeps milkweed in the garden for them, the only thing the caterpillars can eat. She sees a half dozen cocoons a year. The ones we get are late in the year, like now, so they are probably the ones going back to Mexico.
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Isn't it like 6 or 8 generations that make the migration,
Oct 13, 2022, 3:15 PM
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too? I don't know how many miles each travels, but they reproduce, die, hatch, morph, and travel multiple times all in one trip north or south, if I remember it correctly.
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Yes. As I understand it, they start from Mexico and head
Oct 13, 2022, 11:25 PM
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back to the place of their birth, but they go only part way, lay eggs and die. That continues for several generations until the 4th or 5th one ends up in the appointed place in the US. They then go through several generations here, until the 'super generation' flies all the way back to Mexico, though they have never been there, and live the entire winter there, until they start back and start the multi generation process all over again. It's an incredible story.
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