The Overwintering
Monarch Butterflies
February 11-15 and 16-20, 2011
$1,300.00/person
$800.00/child (sharing w/ parents)
The Overwintering
Monarch Butterflies
February 11-15 and 16-20, 2011
$1,300.00/person
$800.00/child (sharing w/ parents)
As the colony begins to warm, you can hear audible ‘whoooshes’ as hundreds of thousands burst into flight all at once...
Join the Florida Museum of Natural History to see one of the most amazing events in nature...the annual migration of millions of Monarch butterflies from their breeding grounds in the United States and Canada to the mountains of central Mexico. You will have the opportunity to see them packed in the countless millions on the roosts in the early morning, as well as in flight at midday, feeding on wildflowers, and watering at streams. The sight of tens of millions of butterflies in the air at once, and hundreds of millions basking on the trees with their wings open, the beauty of their rustling wings (clearly audible at times of mass flight), the sprinkling of orange Monarch scales drifting down through the green fir tree boughs, all combine to make this one of the most amazing experiences in your life. Bring your best photographic equipment, to record this miracle for your friends and relatives to see and marvel at when you return home!
Trip Highlights
Spend two full days within the colony sites, watching, listening and photographing the monarchs
Enjoy nightly discussions led by Dr. Thomas Emmel, where you will learn all about the miraculous migration event.
Ride on horseback into a colony of two-hundred million monarch butterflies
Be treated to gourmet mexican meals at night as we enjoy our cozy mexican villa-style lodge.
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