Observing
Monarchs in the Winter Sanctuaries In the picture on the right, did you notice that:
When the sun shines in the monarch sanctuaries, the butterflies open their wings to bask. It sounds like soft rain when thousands and thousands of wings move at once. If the butterflies get warm enough, they often burst into flight. This baffles scientists. If monarchs need to save their energy in order to survive the winter and migrate north in the spring, then why do they use so much energy to fly?
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