Monarchs undergo a four-stage life cycle and rely solely on milkweed plants for their egg and caterpillar stages. Monarchs in eastern North America migrate up to 3,000 miles to overwinter in Mexico.

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Many butterflies from around the world migrate each year, but no butterfly can match the incredible monarch butterfly migration.

A monarch butterfly tagged in Northern Kentucky has completed a 1,600-mile migration to a sanctuary in Mexico, marking the first time this has occurred since the Queen City Pollinator Project began ...

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I was in my garden over the weekend when I found a monarch butterfly caterpillar on the milkweed I seeded last season, ...