Butterfly migration

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

Evidence has been mounting that female monarch butterflies are better at flying and more successful at migration than males, and researchers from the University of Georgia have now come up with an explanation—but not one they expected.

The monarch butterfly migration in Michoacan is one of the best and most beautiful hikes in Mexico. This is exactly how to add it to your travels through the country! #MexicoTravel #MonarchMigration

☾ Julia | travel, outdoors, van life on Instagram: "The Monarch Butterfly Migration happens from November to March in Michoacán, Mexico. The most surreal experience I have ever had. I hope you get to do this in your lifetime🫶"

Thousands of Monarch Butterflies undergo an insane journey of thousands of miles.

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An ancestral circadian clock mechanism is defined in monarch butterflies, in which two proteins function as critical components. The proteins may also function as output molecules that connect the clock to the sun compass for successful navigation.

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…

Each spring, millions of Monarch butterflies migrate from Mexico north to the US. New research suggests that temperature plays a large role in signaling the butterflies to get moving. University of Massachusetts Medical School professor, Steven Reppert, tells host Steve Curwood that in the future, climate change could disrupt monarch migration.