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Catch the magnificent butterflies at the St. Marks 2023 Monarch Festival on Saturday. Next week, check out the spinning lights when the North Florida Fair opens on Thursday, Nov. 2.
The weekend is jamming with Spooktacular music, Greek Food Festival, Monarch Butterfly Fest, Urban Bush Women at Opening Nights and Halloween fun.
In February, Angangueo celebrates its Festival de la Mariposa Monarca (Monarch Butterfly Festival). [18] This festival began in 1992 to promote awareness of the butterfly habitat, take advantage of the ecotourism it offers and promote the culture and arts of the area.
The town's association with the butterflies came when magazines such as National Geographic and México Desconocido began promoting it, along with neighboring Ocampo. [8] The town hosts an annual monarch butterfly festival each year in February to bid goodbye as the insects head north again.
The refuge is also a stopping point for the yearly monarch butterfly migration. The festival is hosted annually to educate people on the practice of tagging monarch butterflies as they continue through their migration. The setting of Jeff Vandermeer's Southern Reach Trilogy was inspired by the St. Marks NWR. [3]
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Several special events are help each year connected to the butterfly house including Arthropalooza, an all invertebrate related two-day festival, and the annual Monarch Tag & Release Party. The tagging event, held each year since the house was opened, allows the public to take part in the annual Monarch butterfly migration to central Mexico and ...
Monarch butterflies cling together for warmth and protection on the branches of a eucalyptus tree near Trancas Canyon Road in Malibu in January 2022. (Mel Melcon/Los Angeles Times)