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If you ’ve ever marvel how monarch butterflies transmigrate , inquire no longer . This excellent video exhibit the amazing migration of the creature throughout North America . It begin ( or ends ) in the mickle of Mexico ’s Michoacán province , one of the places where milkweed butterfly breed before flying north . Over multiple generations they make it as far as Canada , before returning once more to the south .

Thevideo produced by the Encyclopedia of Lifehighlights efforts to tag and husband the animals . Some milkweed butterfly chase after in New Jersey have made it as far as Mexico .

In Brief

Migrant monarch butterflies tanking up on nectar as they move south.

Migrant monarch butterflies tanking up on nectar as they move south.

Migrant monarch butterflies tanking up on nectar as they move south.

Eye spots on the outer hindwings of a giant owl butterfly (Caligo idomeneus).

Looped video footage of a large shadow moving across North America

a close-up of a fly

Emperor penguin chicks take their first swim in Atka Bay, Antarctica

A Fijian crested iguana (Brachylophus vitiensis) resting on a coconut palm on the island of Fiji in the South Pacific.

An orange sea pig in gloved hands.

A satellite image of a large hurricane over the Southeastern United States

A satellite photo of a giant iceberg next to an island with hundreds of smaller icebergs surrounding the pair

A photo of Lake Chala

A blue house surrounded by flood water in North Beach, Maryland.

a large ocean wave

Sunrise above Michigan�s Lake of the Clouds. We see a ridge of basalt in the foreground.

An image comparing the relative sizes of our solar system�s known dwarf planets, including the newly discovered 2017 OF201

an illustration showing a large disk of material around a star

a person holds a GLP-1 injector

A man with light skin and dark hair and beard leans back in a wooden boat, rowing with oars into the sea

an MRI scan of a brain

A photograph of two of Colossal�s genetically engineered wolves as pups.

A blurry image of two cloudy orange shapes approaching each other