Using Gene Editing to Repaint Butterfly Wings
Butterfly metamorphosis is still a bit of a mystery. What happens inside a chrysalis to turn a caterpillar into a beautifully painted butterfly? Does it really turn to soup?
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Unraveling the Monarch Butterfly Migration Mystery
The monarch butterfly migration is one of nature’s greatest events. This orange-winged wonder travels up to 4,500 km from all over North America to spend the winter hanging from oyamel fir trees in central Mexico’s mountain forests. But how does an animal with a brain the size of a poppy seed navigate to this one special place, especially since the last monarchs to make the trip lived 4 or 5 generations earlier?
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Monarchs by the Millions: Welcome to Butterfly Forest
The largest insect migration in the world ends each year in Michoacán, Mexico. Millions of monarch butterflies travel from the United States and Canada to pass the cold months in the towering trees of this beautiful forest. On their incredible journey, the butterflies travel around 2,800 miles.
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Monarch Butterfly Migration Google Earth Tour
A story about the migration of the eastern population of monarch butterflies in North America, and the people that help them out along the way.
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Butterfly Farming is AMAZING! - (Full Life Cycle)
Destin from the Youtube Channel "Smarter EveryDay" goes to a butterfly farm and watched what butterfly farming is all about.
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Butterfly Farming is AMAZING! - (Full Life Cycle)
A National Geographic video about how Monarchs are so important to the Day of the Dead celebration every year.
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3D Monarch Butterflies in 360°
In eye-popping 3D, National Geographic VR plunges you into the middle of a swarm of a billion monarch butterflies. One of the most spectacular migrations on Earth, these fragile creatures have flown thousands of miles from Canada to breed in this remote forest grove in the mountains of Mexico.
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