Monarch, approaching ironweed
Danaus plexippus
Monarch · Brooklyn Botanic Garden · 13 August 2026
A Monarch coming in to ironweed in the August border, one of the migratory generation provisioning for a journey it has never made. The Monarchs at a Brooklyn garden in mid-August are on the first leg of a flight to central Mexico.
The individuals that fly south each autumn are several generations removed from the ones that flew north in spring, navigating a route none of their ancestors that year has flown before, to a forest none of them has seen.
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