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Slide 1: A North American Tradition Monarch Butterfly Migration
Slide 2: While I was growing up, I spent my summers in a little beach town in New Jersey called Cape May.
Slide 3: There, I was always around a lot of wildlife rabbits, turtles
Slide 4: horseshoe crabs, birds
Slide 5: birds
Slide 6: I always knew when summer was almost over and I needed to start to get ready to go back to school because I would begin to see a very different type of butterfly -
Slide 7: a beautiful orange and black butterfly with white spots on its wings – a Monarch Butterfly
Slide 9: But why did the butterfly appear only near the end of summer?
Slide 10: Monarch butterflies are the only insect out of the millions of insects on earth that make this unique journey
Slide 11: Where exactly are the butterflies heading when they stop to rest and eat in Cape May?
Slide 12: The Rocky Mountains are the dividing line for the winter habitats Rocky Mountains
Slide 13: California
Slide 14: Ontario, Canada Oyamel Fir Forest
Slide 16: Why do they make the journey?
Slide 22: Milkweed is a poisonous plant that causes any organism that eats it to become sick – any organism except the Monarch caterpillar. The caterpillar and butterfly actually become poisonous to most of their would be predators.
Slide 23: GO AWAY I’M POISONOUS!
Slide 24: A Cluster
Slide 31: Credits • Col, Jeananda. Enchanted Learning. http://www.EnchantedLearning.com 2007 • www.creativecommons.org • www.flickr.com • www.pics4learning.com • www.wikipedia.org • Goblueridgecard.com