The Monarch Butterfly has several look-alike butterflies that can trick the monarch observers. The Viceroy Butterfly is perhaps the most well known, but there are other butterflies that can fool the most experienced of observers. Take a moment to familiarize yourself with these monarch look-alikes. 

Amazing Monarch Wings

Is the butterfly young or old? Is it a male or female? Has it had a narrow escape from a predator? Was it well fed as a young caterpillar? These are all questions to investigate. Wings tell quite a story.

When monarchs start to migrate north after they overwinter in Mexico, they arrive to the shores of the United States with tattered and torn wings. These migrating monarchs soon laying eggs on milkweed and then die. The next generation of monarchs continue the migration journey north. 

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