kdacharya wrote:
beautiful, eric. nature is amazing. tfs
I certainly agree with your sentiment re: nature...thanks!
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Shasoc wrote:
Beautiful captures of an amazing and fascinating natural phenomenon, Eric. It takes four generations of Monarchs in one year to get to this stage. Those butterflies represent he final generation of hibernating monarch butterflies. In two or three months they will come out of hibernation to find a mate. They then migrate north and east in order to find a place to lay their eggs.This starts generation one and stage one of the new year for the monarch butterflies. It will take another 3 generations to get back to the stage your images is showing. Monarchs don't live long, just two to five weeks except for this generation, the fourth generation, that will live from six to eight months. This makes you images even more exiting
If you get the chance watch an interesting movie on Netflix called "Flight of Butterflies"
Again, great job!
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Thanks Socrate....there is also a 3 part documentary on The Great Migrations that does a feature on the monarchs as well...well worth the watch. It is quite amazing what the genetic code is capable of....we see butterflies flitting about seemingly aimlessly but it is obvious they are able to navigate over thousands of miles having never ever having made the journey before...mind blowing actually!
Eric
I just watched "Flight of the butterflies". It was quite a miracle. We should all make a pilgrimage to this place in Mexico. I sure will see how to do it.
I'm glad there are still numbers like this somewhere. I used to see groups almost as dense as that at Point Pelee in Sept., but now you are lucky to find 10 on one tree at a time.
Don
nugeny wrote:
I just watched "Flight of the butterflies". It was quite a miracle. We should all make a pilgrimage to this place in Mexico. I sure will see how to do it.
Time is running out Bob...between climate change, loss of habitat and less milkweed it is only a matter of time.
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DonGut wrote:
I'm glad there are still numbers like this somewhere. I used to see groups almost as dense as that at Point Pelee in Sept., but now you are lucky to find 10 on one tree at a time.
Don
Your September butts begot the super monarchs that migrate and land in November/December in California and Mexico....how remarkable!
Eric
