The Monarchs Are Coming

According to the TX A&M News and Information Blog, Monarch butterflies will be hard to miss this spring, as researchers at Texas A&M University are anticipating 200 million of them to enter Texas on their migration northward.  In March they return to Texas and the southern United States to lay eggs on freshly sprouted milkweeds.

Craig Wilson, a senior research associate in the Center for Mathematics and Science Education and a long-time butterfly enthusiast, said the numbers of monarchs entering the state over the next few weeks should be very strong.

During their migration, Monarchs get about 70 percent of their food supply while flying their routes through Texas, and succeeding generations eventually fly 1,500 miles north to Canada.