The Monarch Butterfly

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The Monarch Butterfly

• By Sara

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Migration

• The monarch butterflys migration is longer than
  any other butterfly!!
• 
  Thats up to
• 
  3,000 miles!!

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Migration

• They fly to Mexico every year to sleep there for
  the winter
• Three
  months of
• 
  sleep

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Wing Span

• A monarchs wing span can average to about
  8.5cm-12.5cm
• The
  monarch is also
• called The
  Wandering
• 
  Butterfly for its
• great
  migration.

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After Winter

• After the looong winter, the butterflies will
  wake up.
• The
  life cycle
• of
  monarchs
• that
  migrate
• is 6-8
  months

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Mating

• Then the monarchs will mate, and head back up
  north to lay their eggs.
• A female
  monarch
• can lay
  hundreds of
• eggs per
  season.

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Ending the Life Cycle

• Then, soon after mating, the monarchs will soon
  die, and their young will hatch and continue the
  generations of monarchs!
• ltltltlt This is a
  monarch
• 
  larva

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The End

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