To the Editor:
Long Beach Island is on the migratory path, and all those lovely orange and black butterflies fluttering around your yard are depositing eggs on milkweed. Those eggs transform first to caterpillars, then into adult monarch butterflies, and travel over 2,000 miles to overwinter in central Mexico.
The Methuselah generation caterpillars (those migrating to Mexico) need the host milkweed plant to eat and gain strength to travel those thousands of miles.
August 26, 2015
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