Monarch Butterfly - A Fragile but Hardy Traveler
Let us take a closer look at this jewel of creation. Observe its two pairs of powdery, delicate orange wings, etched in black, with intricately designed borders. This fragile beauty, weighing only one fortieth of an ounce [0.5 gm] and with a wingspan of three to four inches [8-10 cm], is capable of making long, arduous journeys.
 Their flight from Canada in the fall to their wintering grounds in California or Mexico exceeds 2,000 miles [3,200 km]. They cross large lakes, rivers, plains, and mountains. Millions of them successfully complete migration to a destination high in the Sierra Madre mountains of central Mexico.
Such flights are all the more astonishing when you consider that the young butterflies have never made this flight before, nor have they seen the hibernation sites. But unerringly they sense the flight direction and know when they have arrived at their winter habitats. How do they do it?
DVD - "On the Wings of the Monarch"
On the Wings of the Monarch
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DVD - "On the Wings of the Monarch" is an exciting nature documentary that follows host Libby Graham on an amazing journey into the life of the monarch butterfly. We travel to an incredible monarch over-wintering site in Mexico where we find close to 40 million monarchs.
Release Date: 11/20/2004
The Monarch Butterfly is the Texas State Insect
Monarch Butterfly at the Botanical Gardens in Zilker Park, Austin, Texas Art Photographic Poster Print by Richard Cummins, 16x12
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# Photographic Print Title: Monarch Butterfly at the Botanical Gardens in Zilker Park, Austin, Texas
# Artist: Richard Cummins
Monarch Butterfly - 8 Inch Porcelain Plate
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Monarch Butterfly Plate is new and handcrafted utilizing a unique process resulting in a stunning high gloss finish. White porcelain plate measures 8.25 inches in diameter, trimed with two 24 kart gold rims and comes with a stand.
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The Last Monarch Butterfly: Conserving the Monarch Butterfly in a Brave New World
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The Monarch Butterfly: Biology and Conservation
The Monarch Butterfly: Biology and Conservation is the most up-to-date and therefore essential word on our most beloved butterfly, the grand and endangered phenomenon of the migratory Monarch.
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Monarch Butterfly
The monarch (Danaus plexippus) is a milkweed butterfly (subfamily Danainae), in the family Nymphalidae. It is perhaps the best known of all butterflies. Since the 19th century, it is also found in New Zealand, and has been known in Australia since 1871. [http://www.amonline.net.au/factsheets/monarch.htm] [http://calamvalecreek.awardspace.com/regal.html] In Australia it is also known as the wanderer butterfly. [http://bugs.bio.usyd.edu.au/Entomology/internalAnatomy/imagePages/wandererCaterpillar.html] In Europe it is resident in the Canary Islands and Madeira, and is found as a migrant in Russia, Azores, Sweden and Spain. Its wings feature an easily recognizable orange and black pattern, with a wingspan of . (The viceroy butterfly has a similar size, color, and pattern, but can be distinguished by an extra black stripe across the hindwing.) Female monarchs have darker veins on their wings, and the males have a spot in the center of each hindwing [http://www.dbc.uci.edu/~pjbryant/biodiv/lepidopt/danaidae/monarchm.htm] from which pheromones are released. Males are also slightly larger.
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