Today's Smile Post: A Butterfly Travels More Than a Thousand Miles

A Sticker on a Butterfly’s Wings Travels More Than a Thousand Miles

March 13, 2020 | Mark Villanueva

Tracking butterflies takes a little adhesive and a lot of luck. Like confetti blown by the wind, in the thick forest of Central Mexico, during butterfly season, butterflies are everywhere. Their light flaps’ sound reach your ears like whispers, messages that need deciphering from another continent, brought by butterfly migration to the El Rosario sanctuary.

They congregate on trees like sacred fir trees and oyamel, by the millions, so the branches they perch on become plaid orange and black throughout, weighed and pointing to the ground. These butterflies don’t just roost, but pollinate flowers, which are usually just as colorful as they are. Sometimes they gather around and wither.

During autumn,the Monarch Butterfly Biosphere Reserve gets flooded with millions of butterflies that have journeyed through continents, welcomed, too, by people who visit the sanctuary to witness their spectacle. From Canada, eastern US, and such, they roost through winter before returning north. It is an extremely long journey for these insects, a goal for butterfly generations, in fact.

The following year, sometimes returning to the same trees, are their great great grandchildren. Monarch Watch researchers give out stickers to volunteers and interested citizens to paste them on the discal cell of these butterflies’ wings. It’s a project they’re working on in the University of Kansas. These stickers indicate the email address, ID code, and the person’s contact details. Once found, if ever, the tags should be able to give researchers information regarding their flight journey and the places they’ve traveled to. 

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Butterflies and Flowers - 1 Hour Nature Meditation with Soothing Music Video

864,394 views•Feb 27, 2014

Gorgeous butterflies and flowers to enjoy for more than 1 hour  - If the butterflies were not so breathtakingly beautiful and amazing to watch the soothing meditative music would put you to sleep -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AqYNirmVMt0