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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]
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.
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Monarch butterfly migration is the phenomenon, mainly across North America, where the subspecies Danaus plexippus plexippus migrates each autumn to overwintering sites on the West Coast of California or mountainous sites in Central Mexico. Other populations from around the world perform minor migrations or none at all.
The monarch butterfly or simply monarch (Danaus plexippus) is a milkweed butterfly (subfamily Danainae) in the family Nymphalidae. [6] Other common names, depending on region, include milkweed , common tiger , wanderer , and black-veined brown . [ 7 ]
Jackie Minett is a tour guide at Butterfly World in Coconut Creek, dubbed the “butterfly capital of the world.” She leads children and seniors, some tourists, some Floridians, around the ...
A butterfly house called "Wings of the Tropics" features exotic butterflies mainly from Central America, South America, and Southeast Asia flying freely in the 25,000 square foot (2,300 m 2) Clinton Family Conservatory. [20] Butterflies are released twice a day in the morning and afternoon. Among them are longwings, Morpho, and owl butterflies.
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