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Some good-tasting

butterflies are disguised to

look like poisonous ones,

causing birds to stay away

from them as well.

Look closely at these

butterflies to find the

one that is different.

While quite small, the beautiful ________ and black monarch

butterfly makes one of the longest migrations in the animal ________.

Monarch butterflies live in Canada and the northern part of the

United States in the spring and summer. Every fall, when the

weather turns _____, millions of monarch butterflies begin

flying ________ to southern California and central Mexico.

The butterflies ________ to the same forests each year, and some even

find the same tree where their parents and grandparents wintered.

Scientists aren’t sure how the monarchs know where to go each year,

since they each only make the trip ______.

No one knows for

sure why we call

these insects

butterflies,

since the

word has been in the

English language for

centuries (the word

was

buterfleoge

in

Old English, which

means “butter and

flying creature”).

Some people think it

comes from someone

hearing “butterfly”

when someone else

said, “flutter-by.” In

other languages, the

fluttery bug is not

called anything like

“butter” and “fly.”

What’s in a

name?

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