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send tiny slices of endangered Mexican Forest hundreds of millions of the world's most sounding Navigators are staring these man butterflies have waited patiently through the winter barely moving the sun to tell them it's time face underwater just like a winter long thirst Florida will bring Springs sexual Awakening males pluck females from the trees like reluctant flowers bulimic then the black masses take to the wing heading to a place they've never been the only map imprinted on their genes Mysterious Skin to play sun on eyes and antenna  uncanny sense of magnetic north guys the way it will take 5 months for three generations to get the species as far north as Canada 4th super generation to get them back to Mexico such a generational migration is incredibly rare  it takes the leading Generation 3 weeks play 500 miles into the southern us these Intrepid Elders since the death approaching fast  there is urgency now to pass on the migratory pattern female having carried her eggs from Mexico Now searches for the monarchs life-giving Grail milkweed sprouting fall around her Offspring will be late on it patch on it nurse and it's toxic milk to become toxic themselves are the scents label flaunt with their singular Beauty she is dying which lock for children grandchildren and great-grandchildren will carry on the as far north as Canada and then an astounding 2000 miles back to Mexico are the delicate Monarch it may as well be a trip to the moon and yet somehow they do it there tiny tuned to a seasonal Sundial and resonating to the invisible signature of the Earth's core its magnetic

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