The Monarch Butterfly Migration: Its Rise and Fall

Each fall, millions of monarch butterflies migrate from Canada to Mexico. The monarch migration is a demonstration of nature's ingenuity, but the delicate creatures face many perils, and the number of migrating monarchs is declining sharply. This book weaves natural history, science, and personal experience to explore the rise and fall of one of nature's most spectacular phenomena.



While monarch butterflies have been migrating for centuries, they seized public attention in 1976 when a Nation...