Monarch caterpillar on Milkweed Nichols Lake Road Sax-Zim Bog MN IMG_5366
Monarchs migrate all the way to the Sierra Madre Mountains in Mexico to overwinter with millions of their own kind. Amazingly, it is the next generation that finds its way back north [August; Carlton County, Minnesota]
Monarch caterpillars grow fast on a diet of milkweed leaves [August; Carlton County, Minnesota]
Monarch Danaus plexippus Eloise Butler Wildflower Gardens Theodore Wirth Park Golden Valley MNIMG_0465
Monarch Danaus plexippus Galesburg IL IMG_8091 CR2
Monarch Danaus plexippus Galesburg IL IMG_8094 CR2
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Monarch Danaus plexippus Hayden Prairie IA IMG_0065441
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