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Mexico · Nature & Wildlife · Easy
What is the name of the migratory insect that travels up to 4,800 kilometres from Canada to the oyamel fir forests of Michoacan each winter, where millions cluster on tree branches turning them orange?
Answer: Monarch butterfly — Monarch butterflies undertake one of the longest insect migrations on Earth, returning to the same specific mountain forests each November in such numbers that they bend tree branches.
- A Painted lady
- B Swallowtail
- C Emperor moth
- D Monarch butterfly ✓
Monarch butterflies undertake one of the longest insect migrations on Earth, returning to the same specific mountain forests each November in such numbers that they bend tree branches.