A Breathtaking Swarm of 100 Million Butterflies | Earth's Great Seasons | BBC Earth

[@sonptbhtx7989]

I remember living in michoacan mx. Walking in the daytime and being surrounded by thousands of monarchs it was majestic surreal feeling.

[@debbiecreter2005]

How fortunate and blessed you are to have experienced that! Thanks for sharing!

[@sonptbhtx7989]

@debbiecreter2005 I was scared at first I didn't know what was happening I was walking thru a field on my way to work and out of no where thousands and thousands of monarchs it was so cool in my mind I thought it's like I was walking in a cloud.

[@debbiecreter2005]

@@sonptbhtx7989 You won one of the best lotteries of life! I like how you described it as a majestic surreal experience! So happy for you!

[@KarolM1964]

Wow! What an amazing experience. I'm sure it was a beautiful sight.

[@charliedillon1400]

I went there, near Morelia, in 2004 and saw them. I thought people were exaggerating until I saw it for myself. Amazing and surreal.

[@cassriley405]

I saw this migration years ago on the Champlain Islands on Lake Champlain Vermont. I was alone. Water, milkweed,sun. Very close to Canada. Now makes sense. Without a doubt one of the most phenomenal sights of my life. It went on for at least an hour. Just me and all those monarchs. Exquisite.❤

[@janetkinosian]

Sounds like a truly holy experience

[@rachelburgener819]

WOW I could only imagine seeing this in person! The way Gid created each and everything🙏🏻✝️❤️😀

[@rachelburgener819]

*God

[@gravityworks777]

Wow 🤩

[@charlietobin8728]

You guys are 100% correct only God can create such wonderful creations such as butterflies so light and beautiful totally beautiful and innocent and these are only 1 of Gods miraculous creations

[@Sunflowersarepretty]

This is the most beautiful thing I've seen so far. Living in a city and always being surrounded by anything but nature makes us forget how wonderful nature really is. ❤❤❤

[@triumph.over.shipwreck]

Then stop contributing to its total devastation.

[@mofumofu3699]

​@@triumph.over.shipwreck how

[@triumph.over.shipwreck]

@@mofumofu3699 Return to nature. As far as you're willing.

[@ReKo312]

Been there. Videos can’t show the raw beauty of it live.

[@juliej5917]

My daughter lives in the city of Austin, Texas, and they fly right through. 🦋🦋🦋

[@Kate-f1n]

I was born in late 1950's, grew up just outside Grand Rapids, Michigan. This was (at that time) farmland, dirt roads, meadows, woods, streams...true childhood heaven. One late spring, a mammoth cloud of Monarchs came thru our backyard. Covering EVERYTHING. Magical. And I never saw that again. Fast-forward decades later, when the Devos's began The Festival of Arts. I was walking thru an area where an artist was completing her exhibit and suddenly I was back in that cloud of Monarchs. She had painstakingly recreated a swarm in a way that made my heart joyous and break at the same time. Bless her ❤🕊️

[@susa5846]

Thank you for sharing this. What a beautiful experience. ❤️

[@Kate-f1n]

@@susa5846u r most welcome, from my ❤️ to ur's

[@reginavarela8409]

Obrigada por compartilhar isso comigo!!! Quê experiência linda!!!

[@lorettanericcio-bohlman567]

I try to spend every birthday watching this spectacular sight on the northern coast of California among eucalyptus trees. Truly a gift.

[@themufasausa]

Imagine waking up every morning and butterflies flying around you and birds chirping! Oh nature is so beautiful ❤❤❤

[@debbiecreter2005]

BBC always has genius cinematographers! The views and scenes they capture are beyond amazing! Thank you, BBC, for all you do to make us feel like we’re experiencing these nature episodes first hand! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

[@skylark1250]

I’ve seen Monarch Butterflies migration through northern Colorado near Roosevelt National Forest. Hiking through our foothills property and down into a river valley, the trees there were covered in thousands of butterflies as they rested on the tree trunks of pine trees. Too beautiful for words.

[@SkillsPayTheBills01]

Let’s protect these species

[@mariasiburt1755]

Is the monarch butterflies!....and they are protect!

[@akbananachucker2441]

They will probably die just like everything else we kill.

[@Ak-Kahf]

If people can’t even protect humans how will they protect other species

[@namitarya1285]

If you consume more than what's necessary, you are killing them!

[@juliestewart5707]

I witnessed the migration when the butterflies were heading south. It was on the beach - a windy day. I saw 1 butterfly and thought how strange it was to see a butterfly at the beach. Then I saw 3, then I was surrounded by millions of butterflies! It was such a powerful event. God exists. He surrounds us with miracles every day. Praise God!

[@SunLizard-u3k]

🦋

[@cassandro9445]

Which one?

[@muhammadyaseen0099]

Alhamdulillah

[@gatina7713]

What an amazing experience. Thank you for sharing. Glory to our amazing Creator.

[@Ria.ray77257]

Hallelujah 🙌✝️❤️

[@adrianadominguez1566]

This is my beautiful Mexico!! ❤🦋 You feel overwhelmed when you visit these protected places 🍀

[@ceciLOVEtaco]

God's creativity is so amazing. It takes 3 or more generations for monarch butterfly to finish the migration.

[@loveinthematrix]

Sounds like a Disney movie in the making 😊

[@ninabishop8634]

It's Mother Nature. God is mythology.

[@MarlenaFontanella]

Mother nature sounds more mythical than God 🤣 ​@@ninabishop8634

[@esratasneem1113]

​@@ninabishop8634 Without God Almighty the Creator, there won't be Mother Nature 🙄

[@cassandro9445]

​@@esratasneem1113without nature creating our creative minds, there wouldn't be no God 😂 Pretty intolerant of other views and spiritualities, aren't you? Doesn't the bible command to be humble and love thy neighbor? 😂

[@PaulaCiemko]

NOONE DOES GORGEOUS LIKE GOD!! ALWAYS, Paula C ❤

[@robingrüling5560]

I witnessed this migration in my back yard in San Antonio, Texas in 2000. My house sat on an acre surrounded by oak trees and the tree trunks were alive with monarchs. It was the most spectacular thing I’ve ever witnessed.

[@heatherw.2751]

I once had a couple hundred monarchs roost in a pine tree in my back yard for the night during their migration. It was years ago before we all had great cameras in our phones so I wasn’t able to get a picture of it. It was so incredible that I called a friend to come see it so I would know I wasn’t imagining things! It was truly magical in the sense that I was in complete awe of those magnificent little butterflies!!! I’m so glad I looked out to see the sunset that night and saw them!

[@lindadunlap4281]

Pacific Grove, California is called "The last home town" and "The home of the monarch butterfly." When their longtime sanctuary was cut down it almost cost the extinction of these beautiful insects. Saved by the people of the Monterey Peninsula!.

[@jeffhildreth9244]

I lived in PG for over 40 years. It is no longer "the last home town" unless you are a extremely wealthy. The character of the town is no longer what it was owing to the invasion of elitists. I sold my last property there in 2011. Glad to leave. Still have family there. Visit occasionally and can wait to get out. The Monarchs go there to lap up fermented pine tree sap and copulate; Fact. Perfect for a staunch Methodist town.

[@joeycee2585]

​@@jeffhildreth9244 I know many people there; none is a staunch methodist. 😊

[@jeffhildreth9244]

@@joeycee2585 " I know many people there; none is a staunch methodist" Then you do not know the staunch Methodists of PG. That your circle of friends are not Methodist is no indicator. If you had lived there for 4 plus decades, you would know differently. The town was founded by the Methodists and the core is still there. Sadly, much of that era is gone.. used to be a "quaint" balance, not the case anymore. The Monarchs came, got intoxicated on fermented pine sap, fornicated to the delight of otherwise staunch Methodists. Balance. My younger brother still lives there, my oldest brother and parents are buried there.

[@joeycee2585]

@@jeffhildreth9244 No indicator of what? I inferred from your first post that the staunch Methodists 'ran' PG. Perhaps I inferred incorrectly. Be that as it may, I have lived in PG, though not as long as you did; I did not 'feel' their influence. Anyway, we're both fortunate to have lived there. Blessings.

[@moran439]

Only God could create something this perfect and beautiful!

[@delorestaylor8114]

Amen

[@moran439]

@@delorestaylor8114 ❤❤❤

[@rachelburgener819]

AMEN, ✝️🙏🏻❤️😀

[@rosemynnepatris7565]

Agree :)

[@jusjeb66]

True

[@CrazyEightyEights]

Please help protect creatures at risk like the Monarch butterfly. Thanks to the BBC for always inspiring videos.

[@triumph.over.shipwreck]

The only "protection" nature needs is not by us, but rather from us.

[@TW-vw4ss]

is it NatGeo or BBC?

[@CrazyEightyEights]

Thanks. ​@@TW-vw4ss

[@gaycramer2658]

@@TW-vw4ss BBC Earth

[@HannahThomas01]

I grow milkweeds in my yard to welcome the monarchs. The milkweed flowers smell like honeysuckle, so we benefit doubly: the lovely scent, and the beauty of the butterflys!

[@CathieWhitlock]

Thank you. Without milk weed the Monarchs will not survive.

[@gobind1699]

and my imagination could not have asked for anything more than this. This is incredible.

[@gerryk101]

Flying 5000 Km's ? Such a tiny creature. Damn . Tough butterfly.

[@paulaweadon8130]

I saw a migration of Monarchs walking home from a friends's house 55 or so years ago. It was fall in Missouri. It was so beautiful!

[@christinegivens9048]

I grew up in MO and I saw them as a kid. Spectacular.

[@jametalboy]

An insect so delicate but yet so beautiful... Butterflies & lady birds are the most beautiful & eye catching insects...

[@margo3367]

These delicate creatures migrate. Nature is amazing. 🦋 ❤

[@harrellt1405]

If you didnt tell those were butterflies i would have thought those were just leaves falling. Amazing

[@Gail-iv7om]

The INCREDIBLE BEAUTY of Mother Nature!!! We MUST PROTECT this!!!

[@carmelaszymanski8232]

IF..YOU ARE NOT THANKFUL FOR THESE BEAUTIFUL WONDERFUL PEOPLE OF REAL NATURE..THESE WINGED ANGELS

[@josephined8576]

I also experienced hundreds of thousands of yellow butterflies in my neighbor hood last monday morning first time I saw a spectacular display....! WHAT A MIRACLE. Here in pacific coast of the Philippines.

[@lorettanericcio-bohlman567]

Swallowtails?

[@needmeds0]

​@@lorettanericcio-bohlman567😂😂😂

[@MrCaptnrex]

Growing up my Geography teacher had a week where we learned about them and (this being like 2nd grade) did little projects about them, I never forgot about how interesting they are, almost 30 years later I am glad they are still as amazing as then

[@keithbraham6438]

🥰🥰

[@Kat-n-Ollie]

I am lucky enough to have Monarch Butterfly’s seasonally. This video shows how truly breathtaking they are. Gorgeous and these butterflies are miracles in flight. Thank you. ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@TheEbnk]

I came upon migrating butterflies when I was about 14, It was the most beautiful thing I'd ever seen, they were everywhere. I just sat in awe watching.

[@just_kos99]

We had Monarchs, both adult and caterpillars, in New Hampshire and knew they loved the milkweed plants! I didn't know, then, that the adults migrate to Mexico every year. So lovely to see these millions of adult Monarchs on the trees, waiting for that crucial temperature to signal it's time to fly north!

[@Danika_Nadzan]

Isn't is mind-boggling that such tiny creatures can undertake a migration like that? It actually takes 3 or 4 generations to make the round trip, so those leaving Canada for Mexico have never flown the route before! If you can find the 2012 movie, Flight of the Butterflies, it tells how their story was discovered. Cheers!😊

[@andicastro1203]

I was in outside of Cancun in a reserve when I saw the ground start to quiver. My fiend ani didn’t know what was happening as we were on a board walk several feet above the quivering mass. Suddenly a thousand butterflies took flight encircling us as they gained height: we laughed and we cried to be witnessing this incredible natural event.

[@jerseycatmews828]

I hope for 1 trillion plus 1 trillion of these so my children and grandchildren can enjoy and love them 🧡🖤🧡🖤🦋🦋🦋 true beauty

[@emmahardesty4330]

Yea. Wonderful video. Enchanting. The milkweed plants in my yard in Tucson are thriving, heavy with blooms, and Monarchs will be coming by in a week or so. A favorite time.

[@joannleichliter4308]

I had an experience with migrating monarchs years ago in my (then) downtown Omaha, Nebraska neighborhood. They streamed across my front yard for several minutes. It was a thrill.

[@62Madison]

I live along the Mississippi Flyway and have seen resting Monarchs on their migration, once when I was a kid there were swarms of the little Canadians resting on trees in a neighborhood park near Madison WI, the other time riding my bike in Chicago when I witnessed about a hundred Monarchs resting on maples near Navy Pier, fortunately I ran into a friend to share this with while sores of folks rode or jogged by ubiquitous to this wonderful event.

[@tekawolf8254]

How beautiful!! So amazing what GOD put on this planet for our enjoyment. Only if all would take the time to look at it and care about it.

[@DT-yl6yb]

I was fortunate in the fall of 1974 to witness a migration back south. I lived in South Central Oklahoma and one evening as I sat in the back yard literally millions of Monarchs decended on the three pecan trees in our backyard . Within an period of an hour the trees were totally blanketed with Monarchs. When I woke up early the next morning they had already moved on. Truly spectacular!

[@MarieJackson-sp3be]

They fly right through my sister's backyard in San Marcos, Texas.

[@brendaelainewaddell1682]

Wow, absolutely breathtaking. ❤😊

[@missaih]

I had the privilege of seeing some monarch migration a few years ago while driving along the pacific coast highway in CA. Such a cool and beautiful experience. It was then where I learned about their migration. 🧡

[@archangelrevelations9532]

This would be amazing to witness in the morning. I love.

[@shresthachowdhury1770]

The narration is so poetic!

[@angelicagaldos]

And he sounds familiar too. Last video my mom and I recognized Benedict Cumberbatch's voice

[@fToo]

Andrew Scott is a man of many talents!

[@rayrocher6887]

Thanks for trying to save the butterflies, bless you,

[@iamshotty]

WOW. It takes your breath away. Beautiful. Thank you for sharing it with us 🇦🇺💞

[@trueloveingod2691]

Such a beautiful rendering of this great wonder of the world. Absolutely magnificent, the journey of the monarchs is truly astonishing. God bless them, I rejoice when I see one.

[@DaSpacePIG]

I have to see this at least once in my life.

[@CathieWhitlock]

Hurry because they are disappearing due to weed killers that is killing their only known food source.

[@spmoran4703]

The beauty of nature .

[@22RosesGrow]

Oh so beautiful, this heightens your senses. Butterflies are such incredible delicate gifts. Who wouldnt love butterflies...being surrounded by them

[@pattiadams2764]

Wow! Beautiful and amazing! ❤

[@janekeniry7032]

I was a young girl heading into Chicago on the I.C. train and as we came out of an overpass I saw what in my child's mind was a million monarchs! Breathtaking! Never saw it again though!❤❤❤

[@fluffyclouds2729]

Amazing,😍i love monarch butterflies, but they fly even to Europe, i see them in my garden as well and i know they come from fare away !

[@fluffyclouds2729]

@@fabiang7846 oky ? but they look exactely the same- so beautiful and big !

[@maenova4638]

@@fabiang7846 yes, a few do end up in mainland Europe due to a resident population in the Canary Islands.

[@trudy285]

Thank God! This gives me hope! TYVM for sharing with us! ☺️✌️❤️🦋🙏

[@matita_p]

Ladies and gentlemen what is seen and said here has no comparison to being there! I've had that privilege. Indeed beyond words 😊

[@PeggyDreher]

Monarch butterflies are my favorite❤

[@charliedillon1400]

I went to this place in Michoacan. Camped in my truck in the village overnight and hiked up at sunrise. It's pretty high elevation. When it warms up they start moving . Wildest natural spectacle I've ever seen.

[@mariasiburt1755]

A BEAUTIFUL THING TO SEE!....LOVE THE MONARCH BUTTERFLIES!

[@DHall_onYT]

This is so beautiful. Thank you God for creating such beauty.

[@omaeve]

It was the most wonderful thing I’ve ever seen. I used to take my son to see the gliders fly in the afternoon in Alamogordo, New Mexico and on the way back the poplar trees were covered with monarch butterflies. I told other people and they said oh yes, you’ll have to go very early in the morning and wait for them to get warm and then they will all takeoff and fly to Mexico for the winter. Of course my son is too young to remember he was barely, 11 months old. But to this day, I like to grow milkweed, especially because they like to cut it off on the sides of the highways and that’s so detrimental to the monarchs. Please don’t cut the milkweed down.

[@craftykat]

So magical! I live in Northern Ontario, Canada, and when I was a little girl, about 5 years old, a huge flock of Monarchs landed in our backyard at camp. It was amazing; I have never seen anything like that again and I'm 60 now.

[@silvananeal5276]

Thank you, Divine Mother, for this reminder of Your LOVE.

[@MoonStar-fq6oy]

I was told about these Wonderful Beautiful butter flies in the 70s

[@CathieWhitlock]

Monarchs used to be seen frequently but weed killers have killed off their only food source.

[@MoonStar-fq6oy]

@@CathieWhitlock people just can't leave things be

[@sukruoosten]

such beauty such perfectly designed by its CREATOR GOD YAH amazing footage !!!

[@kokabr]

Butterflies are beautiful

[@flashflame4952]

I would love to just be sitting there with all of them!!! They are my favorite winged majestic creatures.

[@H.R.H-Amina_Bin_Shafiq-SHAKTI]

WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOW THIS IS BEAUTIFUL

[@rociomondragon8673]

Un hermoso espectáculo que puedes ver en Michoacán México.

[@Salah_-_Uddin]

Nature is nature.

[@ES-ku3oe]

Wow. Just wow. ❤ how amazing would it be to have millions of butterflies flying around you

[@gotFISH153]

Once, many years ago when I lived in California, USA, I experienced the migration of the monarch butterflies. I heard it is happening, but I actually saw it with my very own eyes. Maybe, I can say, thousands of butterflies were moving north, it was so beautiful and...

[@MorningStar-t7v]

And what happened next

[@arriesone1]

Truly astounding. We cannot lose this.

[@dianeashworth2311]

My house in Ft. Worth, TX, was in the Monarch butterfly flyway. I had what seemed like a million of them land in my fruit trees, on the sides of my house, on the lawn, and even on me. A few of them died where they landed; I still can’t imagine how such small, delicate creatures were able to migrate hundreds of miles.

[@kathybarry2765]

What an Amazing video,, Thankyou,,,And a lovely calm Irish voice to go with it,😊👍🦋

[@drumcircler]

Stunning

[@pierrecadieux8035]

Long live the beautiful Monarchs!

[@movtipsislee]

For these Beautiful Butterflys the journey an destination are epic an secures life for them -The Monarch 🧡🖤👑♥️

[@hannahcalibaba4068]

If I ever get the opportunity to check this off my bucket list, I think I would be so overjoyed that it would be hard to get me to stop crying

[@samgreen-mu4xh]

Incredible 😮......

[@fob1xxl]

I once was blessed seeing this exact thing going through Laurel Canyon in Los Angeles once in the 90s. It was an amazing sight. I couldn't believe it ! It was as if I were in a dream. I wish I had my camera ! Back then, there were no cell phones.🦋🦋🦋🦋🦋🦋🦋🦋🦋

[@sydney.g.sloangammagee8181]

My grandparents home was in this migration path, in the Midwest - just a small portion of this hugh mass, but to see his trees loaded with Monarch butterflies overnight to take off in the morning, then another batch for several days - it was incredible !!! We never let what few milk weeds we have get damaged!!!

[@erushmiekarunaratne2887]

Beautiful. Thank you BBC❤

[@dgr8nikhilsrivastava]

we all are butterfly once, in our childhood!! now, we're more like a cocoon just waiting and waiting, hoping to fly again!!!

[@ragmanv420]

Reverse-analogy?!?! I like it

[@firstlast-gn5bo]

They’ve been known to stop at Montezuma Wildlife Refuge in Western NYS, but have never seen these numbers. Stunning and beautiful nature, in all her glory.

[@CathieWhitlock]

Weed killers have killed off their only food source. Monarch butterflies will soon only be on film.

[@kbmightmight518]

AMAZING AND BEAUTIFUL ❤ Imagine what it would be like to witness this❤

[@plankface]

Joy, happiness and awwwwwww 🧡🖤🤍

[@carleneedwards9681]

Amen, only Almighty God could do that.❤

[@StLProgressive]

Just breathtaking. I see them all the time in the spring, but I didn’t know that they massed together like that in Mexico.

[@lynnehall5125]

Love those butterfly's ❤ Gods beautiful creation.....

[@houndmother2398]

How cool is that. When I was a kid growing up in Missouri we used to see their migrations in the spring. I live in the south now and there's really hardly any butterflies here anymore.

[@clearquartzmh7609]

Thank you 🥰

[@angelinalozada189]

WOW, Such Beauty!! Thank You.

[@debsylvester2012]

Thank you BBC. That was exceptionally beautiful.

[@carolynmonty7883]

Thank you thank you THANK YOU. for bringing nature into my life. 🇬🇧

[@kgrant3184]

Wow! Was graced with the sight of a gorgeous huge Monarch butterfly last week up here in Canada. Didn't know about the milkweed connection (or forgot it). Epic journey. A marvel of nature. Thanks for sharing.

[@virginiabotha3545]

Beautiful, glorious video. Thank you!❤😊

[@sheryltaylor7181]

As a kid I can remember them passing through our town on their migration, so many of them. Now, hardly any at all in comparison. It's sad.

[@avisionthroughchrist]

Breathtaking is an understatement

[@mlbrooks4066]

When I was in college in Tennessee in the early 70s, we had a migration go through. I remember walking down the street with them - it was like it was snowing butterflies, there were so many of them. I never saw a migration again - I wish I had.

[@kellyford5903]

Oh my!! Glory, Glory to God! WoW 🤩 God is SOOOO GREAT!! Beautiful-thanks for sharing! 🙏💕