Danaus plexippus
The monarch butterfly undertakes one of the most remarkable migrations in the animal kingdom, travelling up to 4,800 km. A rare but increasingly recorded vagrant to south-west Britain.
Each autumn, hundreds of millions of monarch butterflies undertake an extraordinary migration from Canada and the northern USA to their overwintering grounds in the mountains of ce…
North America (Canada to Mexico)
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Record sightingConservation Status: EN
Endangered — assessed by the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species.