Monarch butterfly

Milk weed is sometimes where you will find a monarch caterpillar. The monarch caterpillar is mostly yellow with black stripes. Monarch butterflies are the only butterflies that travel 3,000 miles. (They just come out of chrysalis and they fly 3,000 miles.) They fly to mexico. That is like us going around the world two times without any vehicles. When it is a caterpillar  is eats like crazy and then it goes in the chrysalis for ten days then it comes out and it is a butterfly it is a miracle. Its wings are shriveled up but after about ten minutes they are not shriveled up any more. They sometimes take breaks to drink and store nectar for the journey. When the go across this lake that is 1,000 miles and if they can find a boat they rest there. They weigh about one tissue so if the wind is blowing in the wrong direction then that is when the would take a break. If it was ever caught in a spider web the spider would never eat it because monarchs are poison for other animals that is why some butterflies look a lot like the monarch other predators will not eat is. After they get to mexico they lay eggs and die but there sons and daughters finish back home.(They only left home because it was going to be cold there soon. They go up in the trees for four months then they go lay eggs. It is a beautiful sight to see all of those monarchs hibernating in the trees, they all huddle up to keep warm.)