Texas Parks & Wildlife, Volume 67, Number 10, October 2009 Page: 46
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10The Mystery of Migration
MONARCHS - LIKE SOME BIRDS and mammals - travel south in the fall to reach
warmer climates with abundant food. Most come from Canada and the northern U.S.
Somehow, they find their way to fir forests that grow high in the mountains of Central Mexi-
co. Over winter, they roost together in large numbers among the tree branches. In the
spring, they return to Texas and the southern U.S., lay eggs on milkweeds and die. The
young hatch and mature into adult butterflies, which continue northward. By September
and October, great-grandchildren (and sometimes great-
great-grandchildren) of the monarchs that migrated
the previous fall arrive back in Canada and the
northern US. Then the cycle begins again!
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Texas. Parks and Wildlife Department. Texas Parks & Wildlife, Volume 67, Number 10, October 2009, periodical, October 2009; Austin, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth641673/m1/50/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Government Documents Department.