Monarch migration

Everything you need to know about witnessing the natural miracle that is Mexico's monarch butterfly migration. From why they migrate to the best time to go!

How many of these 10 interesting monarch migration facts do you know about the Annual butterfly Migration from Canada to Mexico. Prepare to be surprised and amazed by those amazing migrating monarchs....

At the Joya Redonda Monarch Butterfly Sanctuary, hibernating monarch numbers have multiplied tenfold. But is that enough to save the insect?

As recently as the mid 1990s, a billion or more Monarch butterflies fluttered through US and Canadian meadows in the summer and headed to forests in central Mexico in the winter, but habitat loss, pesticides and climate change have endangered their population. Host Steve Curwood discusses a recent survey indicating a rebound in Monarchs with Tierra Curry, Senior Scientist with the Center for Biological Diversity, and learns what the US and Mexico are doing to ensure that the species…

monarch butterflies I have been to CA groves @ Pacific Grove & Pismo Beach

Some places like El Rosario National Reserve in Mexico, make you feel humble, grateful you are alive and can see natures beauty. Like a time machine, the child in you has been awaken. I took a few photos, but then decided that the best pictures cannot be taken, you just hold them in your heart. I put down the camera, sat on my rear end, and looked up quietly. The monarchs gather in Michoacan to spend the cold months, between November and March. Some of them make it all the way from Canada

Monarchs migrate from north to south along two main routes. Monarchs east of the Rocky Mountains travel between Canada and Mexico. Those west of the Rockies travel between Canada and California.| Kids Discover Butterflies and Moths

The precipitous loss of native vegetation across the United States has led to a dramatic decline of insect populations.