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Monarch Feeding

Monarch Nectaring

Monarch butterflies drink the nectar from flowering plants. They "taste" with their feet but drink with a special feeding tube called a proboscis.

Only the Monarch butterflies born in the fall migrate. They can't stay in the cold weather and must go south or die.

Scientist don't know everything about the Monarch butterfly migration yet.

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Photographs courtesy of Harlen E. and Altus Aschen, Victoria Christian School, in Victoria, Texas (VCS Monarch Observations)