A Mystery of Butterflies
Whether one lives in America or Britain he can scarcely help being interested in the extraordinary habits of the beautiful monarch butterfly, which is found as a perfect insect on both sides of the Atlantic, and yet has never been known to breed in Britain. Ever since 1876, when the first monarch wa s observed in England, British and American naturalists have been trying to find out how these very fragile creatures manage to cross 3000 miles of open ocean in safety. It they do breed in England, someone by now would surely have seen their caterpillars or chrysalids, yet no one has ever done so.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 20168, 9 June 1928, Page 2 (Supplement)
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110A Mystery of Butterflies Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 20168, 9 June 1928, Page 2 (Supplement)
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