I took this photo Wednesday morning on the campus of Western Carolina University of a Monarch Butterfly as it rested on the annual migration to Mexico.
While trying to find the scientific name for the Monarch, I found an interesting website that tracks the annual migration of the butterfly. From the website:
Every fall, a magical event takes place in the animal world. Perhaps traveling over your own head right now--or clustered by the hundreds in a nearby tree--the annual monarch butterfly migration to Mexico is underway. By instinct alone, the butterflies go to the same mountains that their ancestors left the previous spring. Somehow, they find a place in Mexico that they've never seen before.
Here are other interesting websites to check out:
Monarch Watch
Monarch Butterfly USA (For the children, but cool for me since I am a kid at heart)
Monarch Butterfly Website
Great Plains Nature Center
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