Date: 10/22/2014

Number: 1

Monarch butterfly Victoria chooses to reproduce
NOTIMEX | The Universal
October 22, 2014

Milkweed plants with eggs Monarch Butterfly is located in within the urban area of ​​Victoria, in the spa "Los Troncones"

In its long journey to the center of Mexico, from Canada, the monarch chose this city as a site of reproduction, to lay their eggs on milkweed plants located in different sectors of the municipality.

Assistant Secretary for Environment, Heberto Lliteras Cavazos indicated that Victoria is one of the main towns where the butterfly stops to lay their eggs.

He said milkweed plants play a vital role in the life cycle of the monarch butterfly, because it obtain food and poisonous toxins that make them, helping them to not be easily preyed upon.

Milkweed plants with eggs Monarch Butterfly is located in within the urban area of ​​Victoria, in the spa "Los Troncones" on "Ex Hacienda Santa Engracia" town of Hidalgo and Farias within the Biosphere Reserve the Sky.

Besides ripiaras areas in the town of Aldama, where they were monitored, in order to document the reproductive cycle of the species, since previously it was only known that was playing in South Texas.

The state official said that these papers represent the first record we have for Tamaulipas of this important species.

He said that by mid-April, Monarch butterflies born in Tamaulipas, continue their journey to the United States, other stage and a new reproductive cycle, which is repeated at least three times higher among the younger generations.

This lepidopteran insect cover a distance of four thousand 500 kilometers to the pine forests of North America.

He said that the last generation to be born in September in the region, is the only live about nine months and have the chance to take flight for three months, to return to the forests of fir and pine from central Mexico, where he established colonies to hibernate.

"To these monarchs will give them again welcome and begin monitoring flyway Tamaulipas, as of November," he said.

Submitted and translated by Don Davis

Ciudad Victoria, TAM

Latitude: 23.7 Longitude: -99.1

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