Angangueo Butterfly Preserve, Michoacan
Jim and June Jackson with
captured butterfly at the Angangueo National Monarch Butterfly Preserve in eastern Michoacan.
Millions of butterflies come to Angangeo each winter from Canada and the United States. The amazing thing is that the butterflies that return each year are the third generation of the butterflies that left in the spring. How these insects accomplish this remains a mystery. Monarchs, (danaus plexippus), which have been raised in captivity still are able to find there way back to Mexico.
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