A migratory divide in insects! 🦋 Vanessa cardui butterflies migrate in opposite directions in the Northern and Southern hemispheres 🌍, a pattern driven by a chromosomal inversion 🧬
Paper @natcomms.nature.com
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Monarch Butterflies
Sunning themselves in pismo Beach, California, 🇺🇸
2023 fall migration
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#MigrationRoutes
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Every fall, millions of #MonarchButterflies migrate over 3,500 miles to #Mexico to spend the winter since they cannot withstand the cold in the northern climates.
#butterflymigration #monarchbutterfly #edusky #sciencesky
A monarch with wings open resting on an orange flower
A monarch hanging onto a yellow cosmo flower in the wind
The underside of a monarch hanging onto a yellow cosmo flower in the wind
A monarch resting on a tall yellow cosmo plant in front of a Doberman keeping watch in the background
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
A newly hatched orange and black monarch butterfly still clinging to the clear remains of its chrysalis.
The only orange monarch I’ll ever recognize 🧡
Hatched the evening of 9/25/2025, Central Vermont
#NoKings #monarchs #butterflymigration
🦋 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 🦋
Enjoy my dialogue with the Monarch Caterpillars
#evolution #monarchcaterpillar #monarch #butterfly #butterflymigration #religion #evolution #piligrimage #animals
#civilization #butterfly
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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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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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This Butterfly’s Epic Migration Is Written into Its Chemistry #Science #Biology #Zoology #ButterflyMigration #ChemicalSignals #Biodiversity
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
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
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
Mating monarch’s butterflies on pine tree sapling.
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.
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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
