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I only know Monarch Butterflies from documentaries.

Sad that I will probably not be able to witness it with my own eyes.

These are only the migratory population.

I always thought they were all migratory, but I guess some populations stick around in areas and aren't in as much danger.

I see them not infrequently on the East Coast.

There's a lot of lookalike butterflies though

I was always told the ones in Kansas were going to/from Mexico on this migration, but I gather from Wikipedia that that was all actually happening much farther West, and ours weren't the migratory kind.

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