More #monarchs coming through today on their way to Mexico after all the storms and rain have cleared out.

Little bit nervous for them to be in my garden right now because the wasps who've been pollinating all summer are incredibly territorial.

I hope they make it safely 🙏🦋🇲🇽
#ButterflyMigration

The monarchs are here!!!!! 😻
#Texas #ButterflyMigration

New paper! We uncover the intriguing biogeographic history behind the Holarctic disjunct distributions in Vanessa butterflies.

#butterflymigration #biogeography #evolution #PhyloMigrationLab @aleixpalahi.bsky.social
@ibb-botanic.bsky.social @csic.es

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🦋 Monarchs are on their epic 3,000-mile trek from Canada to Mexico. Each generation trusts the journey, guided by instinct. They won't see the destination, but their great-great-grandkids will. A lesson in patience and playing a part in a bigger picture. #ButterflyMigration #Homeschool 🦋

On family holliday in Athens, Greece. Too many people at the Akropolis so we just watched it from a nearby hill. About every Malva bush had some painted lady, Vanessa cardui, caterpillars. Must be 1000s on that hill alone! Hopefully next generation reaches NW Europe! #butterflymigration

Hundreds of Painted Lady #butterflies suddenly appeared on a ship in the North Sea, 60 miles off the coast of Norway, last Saturday. (Report and 📷 Peter Dolan) #ButterflyMigration

Monarch butterflies (Danaus plexippus) mating on White pine (Pinus strobus) sapling in field. NE US, Aug. 15, ‘18. This is the 3rd generation in their migratory journey. Their offspring will be the robust 4th, & final generation, who migrate south to Mexico.

#monarch #butterflymigration #mating

Be a part of our tagging project!! If you have any photos of or with tagged monarchs please send them in to us. We love to see where our butterflies have gone!

#taggingmonarchs #butterflymigration #nzbutterflies

#monarchbutterflies #pointpeelnationalpark #butterflymigration #ontario #canada 😍

1/6) New paper out in Molecular Ecology! We uncover the intriguing biogeographic history behind the Holarctic disjunct distributions in Vanessa butterflies. @phylomigrationlab.bsky.social
#biogeography #insectmigration #butterflymigration #butterflies #evolution
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The only orange monarch I’ll ever recognize 🧡
Hatched the evening of 9/25/2025, Central Vermont
#NoKings #monarchs #butterflymigration

Enjoy my dialogue with the Monarch Caterpillars

#evolution #monarchcaterpillar #monarch #butterfly #butterflymigration #religion #evolution #piligrimage #animals
#civilization #butterfly

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Butterfly migration habits are not determined by their DNA: The findings challenge previous assumptions about butterfly migration and highlight the role of phenotypic plasticity

#ButterflyMigration #GeneticsVsEnvironment #WildlifeResearch #NatureMysteries #Ecology #EarthDotCom #EarthSnap #Earth

Good riddance to bad rubbish *dusthands* #butterflymigration

This Butterfly’s Epic Migration Is Written into Its Chemistry #Science #Biology #Zoology #ButterflyMigration #ChemicalSignals #Biodiversity