Monarch butterfly - amazing migration

[mostliberal]

Sorry to be ignorant, but I was always curious why do so many species of various classes of animals migrate migrate north in the summer, when they'll have to escape winter a few months later?

[benjevator]

awesome vid!i raised monaarch butterflies too

[zytigon]

Evolutionary biologists are beginning to work out the mystery of how a complex life cycle like caterpillar- chrysalis - butterfly evolved. If you want to read the details try Richard Dawkins excellent books like " The ancestors tale " or Talkdesign org or Evolutionfairytale website, Also try PZ Meyers website Pharyngula or Potholer54 channel on youtube for more excellent videos

[SereneiBE]

it shuid be consitered a crime 2 kill buttorflies on perpuse

[sabrinamom]

Thank you for this education video I can show my young daughter. =)

[Switzer727]

interesting!

[bellamoonnature]

Beautiful, interesting video. Thanks for sharing. Bella

[Slowico]

Sehr schöne Aufnahmen.

[mzh3000]

I fond a cicada making all kinds of noise on the tree next to me, I went near him and he flew to another tree and continued making noise.

[starfish50]

When I lived in Wichita once a year, the monorcs would migrate north, they would stop in our pastor and eat, the sun flower pettles.

[Reggi05]

Very nice and interesting Video.

Regina

[MsLornaRose]

The power of nature in all its fabulous splender. Wonderful video and very informative!

[yaywad]

you should make more videos in this series!

i like them!

[Mybuddhakitty]

At 3.39 he said the gross word "vomit".

[Tulio300]

Im going to have some this spring, the only thing Im worried about it is that the chrisalys will be clumsey, very worried about that because sometimes it survives, sometimes doesnt, when it doesnt survive a green liquid comes out

[gategrass]

This is so cool

[gategrass]

oh wow butterflis in a tree

[gategrass]

yummy milk weeds

[NatureTraveler2008]

Very interesting 5 *

I love butterflies

[Energonorama]

I don't get how a butterfly that has just been born knows how to fly 3000 miles and lay an egg?? "Imprinted behaviour" doesn't explain it for me because it skips a generation.

Meh... im going to look into Cicada beetles more.

[backyardbugs]

Well, the research to try to understand how they do it is still going on. Nobody knows yet how they find their way and how they are drawn to migrate in the fall. We just know they do it. There are many papers on this subject in scientific journals.

[Energonorama]

Yea I had an idea. What if it's just another life stage? Do you know if anyones checked out the genetic differences between the parent and offspring? Maybe they make a virtual clone of themselves to bridge the gap between the seasons.

[gibigbig]

@Energonorama i suppose its the same reason why an ant knows it has to work in armies, so the colony can benefit.

[DocCallihan]

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