"Bird" of the Month - Monarch Butterfly

I love butterflies! I try to go once a year to the Fort Worth Botanical Gardens and watch the Monarch Butterflies as they travel through Fort Worth.  You are able to interact with butterflies and it is an amazing experience.   Here are a few facts about Monarchs:

■ Monarch Butterflies have been known to travel as much as 5,000 miles in a year! They're also one of the few insects thats capable of making a trans-Atlantic crossing.

■Milkweed contains a chemical that tastes disgusting to birds. If birds didn’t associate that taste with the Monarchs, the butterflies would be nearly defenseless against them. Milkweed is the host plant for Monarchs, so if you want to attract them to your garden, make sure Milkweed is a prominent plant.

■During the larval stage of their lifetime, the Monarch Butterfly is completely dependent on milkweed.

■It's believed that the Monarch Butterfly uses the Earth's magnetic field to find the town of Angangueo, Mexico where it spends the winter avoiding the cold.

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