Monarch butterflies pass through Chicago on their way to Mexico
Monarch butterflies are expected in the Chicago region this week as part of the insect’s annual migration.
By Lynnea Domienik
Monarch butterflies pass through Chicago on their way to Mexico
Monarch butterflies are expected in the Chicago region this week as part of the insect’s annual migration.
By Lynnea Domienik
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Every year Northern American monarch butterflies fly 3,000 miles from Canada to Mexico, and they’re making a pit stop in Chicago!
Reset checks in with a local zoologist to learn how being an endangered species is affecting this year’s migration.
GUEST: Allen Lawrence, associate curator of entomology at the Chicago Academy of Sciences/ Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum