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| The beautiful Monarch butterfly from North America (also N. Atlantic and S. Pacific rim) is like an orange stained-glass window. Monarch butterflies flock together to migrate from northern USA/southern Canada to Mexico/Central America in the autumn and return north in the spring, although, since the butterfly lives for 6 weeks, it is later generations of the butterfly that return north. | |
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| The female Monarch is a little darker with thicker, darker black veins | The male Monarch is a little brighter orange and has two black scent marks on the hind wing |
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| Male Monarch butterflies | ||
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| Female Monarch butterflies | ||
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| Side view of the stained-glass window | On its favourite nectar and larval host, the Milkweed plant | |
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| Egg | Caterpillar | Pupating | Pupa/Chrysalis | Pupa/Chrysalis | Emergence |