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Inside the monarch butterfly’s remarkable 2,500-mile migrations, and what Cape May has to do with it

They weigh about a tenth as much as a paper airplane, but migrating Monarch butterflies somehow defy the elements, and the imagination.

A monarch butterfly enjoys a nectar break in Cape May Point on Monday. The Monarchs might need all the nectar they can drink if they want to make it to Mexico.
A monarch butterfly enjoys a nectar break in Cape May Point on Monday. The Monarchs might need all the nectar they can drink if they want to make it to Mexico.Read moreVernon Ogrodnek
    by Anthony R. Wood
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