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Danaus plexippus
A Monarch butterfly, raised from an egg in captivity and released for the Fall migration.
Milkweed plant, unplowed field, rural deciduous area, Clermont County
Fun fact: Monarch butterflies overwinter in Mexico's central highlands. Their offspring will be the butterflies that migrate north for the Summer, and their offspring's offspring will migrate back to Mexico in late Fall. Although no single butterfly ever makes it from Mexico to the US and back again, they somehow know how to get back to the exact forest in Mexico where their grandparents overwintered the year before.
Spotted on Oct 2, 2015
Submitted on Apr 16, 2017
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