Symbolic Butterfly Migration Project
Univeristy of Michoacan, Mexico State of the Monarch Butterfly Sanctuaries
Site from Mexico in Spanish:
Virtual Butterfly Museum in English, Spanish and French.
Site from Canada:
Website about butterflies in Spanish from Argentina:
>Kits for starting your own butterfly garden:
The Papalotzin, (an ancient Aztec word meaning small
butterfly), crewed by pilots from Canada, the United States and
Mexico accompanied the Monarch butterflies on their 3,415 mile
migration. A documentary film by producer Gregory Allen was
produced during the journey. :
http://www.papalotzin.com and http://www.greenwaybloom.com/
Annual Texas butterfly festival in October:
Tours and tagging of the Monarchs in September and October
at the Cape May Bird Observatory NJ:
Science and Aztec folklore about butterflies in Spanish:
Tours of Over-wintering Site
October-February in California
(See Natural Bridges State Beach)
The park's Monarch Grove provides a temporary home for
over 100,000 Monarchs each winter. From mid-October through the end of
February, the Monarchs form a "city in the trees." The area's mild
ocean air and eucalyptus grove provide a safe roost until spring. In the spring
and summer, the butterflies live in the valley regions west of the Rocky
Mountains where milkweed, the only plant a Monarch caterpillar eats, is
1) Ada, Alma Flor, Olmo y la mariposa azul
A little boy tries to catch a butterfly that flies in and out of his window and through the town.
2) Baca Haque, Mary, Madalynn la mariposa monaraca y su aventura
(Also in English as Madalynn The Monarch Butterfly)
A bilingual story of a Monarch who loses track of the butterfly group flying to
Mexico and meets several birds along the way who help direct her.
3) Jiménez, Francisco, La mariposa
(In English, same title)
The son of an immigrant who does not yet feel accepted observes and draws an
emerging butterfly which intrigues his classmates.
4) Lewellyn, Clair, Asi nace una mariposa
A beginning level picture book on the lifecycle of a butterfly.
5) Joose, Barbara, El círculo mágico
(In English as Ghost Wings)
The grandmother of a Mexican girl from Michoacan dies and she
feels her soul when the butterflies come back around the Day of the
Dead. She recalls the ancient Aztec legend of souls returning as
Monarch butterflies each year.
6) O'Connor, Crystal Ball, Jake y la migración de la Monarca
(In English as Jake and the Migration of the Monarch)
On the beach in South Carolina, Jake and his mother see
hundreds of Monarch butterflies going south.