Big Sur Recreation & Parks
Keeping up a family tradition
Monarch Butterflies migrate up and down the US and can travel upto 3000 miles on their yearly treks. Every year the monarch butterfly makes a very long two way trip between roosts. They are the on
ly tropical butterflies to make such long journeys. The Monarchs travel further than many birds and whales, hardly what anyone would ever suspect such small creatures to do. The butterflys can be seen flying in masses and amazingly enough they return to the same place, sometimes even the same trees as the previous year. Whats really fascinating is that the following years migration is not made by the same butterflies as the year before, it is made by their offsprings, the grandchildren. The butterflys only make the journey once in thier short life and their grandchildren return the following fall to the same location as their grandparents having never been their before. HD images of Butterflies and desktop HD wallpaper For more wildlife info for Big Sur California, Big Sur Chamber of Commerce Monarch Butterflies roost at Andrew Molera State Park Big Sur big sur monarch