The Great Monarch Migration

[@ducksgo]

Going to buy milkweed tomorrow my garden. We are starting to get Monarch butterflies flying around in Long Beach California. I’ll help them with my unused garden area. Thanks for the advice

[@elizabethloper1870]

We have a milk weed garden and raised 3 monarchs this year. This is sooooooo cool.

[@pyropatti]

I smiled through the whole video. How lucky you are to have witnessed this and thank you so much for sharing it with us!

[@charliehernandez179]

Cried and touched because of this. Your videos are amazing. I haven’t seen anything like that here in my country, Philippines. Truly praising God for people like you (and your team) and for showing this. It is a great advocacy. God bless and excited for your upcoming videos.

[@itsgreyshull]

I was sent here by Alie Ward from the Ologies Podcast! Great podcast episode and awesome video! I wanna book my next trip to Mexico to see this. :)

[@gratefulone5889]

The Pastor at my church shared this video in her weekly written message to us and I am so grateful she did. Wow. This is one of the most astonishingly beautiful things I have ever seen. Wow. Thank you for respectfully capturing and sharing this Great Monarch Migration with us all. God is amazing. Beyond amazing.

[@aurelienbiechy]

I don't know you, but for a second I saw the 5-year old you in that video. thx

[@SecretFiri]

That is so beautiful I even cried. Butterflies are my favourite beings ever and I just can't with this beauty.

[@TheJungleDiaries]

So much beauty in this world- it was astounding to see it all in one place

[@carolinepaquier8156]

I watched a program on this amazing migration event in an Omni-Max theater at our museum. It was just gorgeous. This migrations should be listed as one of the wonders of the world. The sky was literally covered by them, even the sunshine dimmed when they flew into their destination. Then the trees totally changed, literally covered by Monarchs. You couldn't see the bark. This is SO worth protecting so that our grandchildren can experience it.

[@dorafisherrealestate]

Thank you for sharing. I will make it there to the the Rosario sanctuary as well 🥰 This year I had the privilege to visit the Sequoias National Park 🏞️, another one of my dreams come true ✨ The monarch butterflies are next…in Mexico! 🙏🏼💕

[@SaunieHolloway]

This is why we plant Milkweed and raise Monarch butterflies. This video is amazing! we have overwintering sites here in California, but this...is amazing. Thank you for such a beautiful video!

[@TheJungleDiaries]

Thank you for planting the milkweed! I have seen some of the sites in California which motivated me to take the trip to see them here.

[@SaunieHolloway]

The Jungle Diaries we are ready to take that trip with you next year!

[@PinkChucky15]

They are SO beautiful!! Wonderful video! :-D

[@ptmeyers6747]

Interesting video. Monarchs are amazing. I need to add this to my bucket list.

[@butterflyproductionsmwvern8456]

I first became aware of Monarchs migrating about 5 yrs ago when on several instances I noticed a monarch flying near my vehicls as I entranced the highway westward. Then I saw a 3-D documentary that stole my heart. In Sept/Oct, I've seen monarchs come through Indiana, a, from NE traveling SW. Sometimes stopping to rest. Thank for sharing this video. I'm curious to know how many acres of forest the monarchs occupy. I read it was less than two acres in 2013. Down from 44 in 1996. We cannot lose the monarch butterfly, and I will do what I can to spread the word about the importance of milkweed.

[@abrahamcruz7449]

Never forget this name Homero Gómez. He die trying to protect this place.

[@IsaBetaBug]

Thank you for sharing these beautiful scenes and the monarch butterfly story! I esp love the butterfly kiss and the footage of the back lit monarchs

[@TheJungleDiaries]

You're welcome Isa! If you ever get a chance to visit you must- you can then give one a butterfly kiss yourself :-)

[@antianxietyrelaxation2073]

This is amazing !!! So beautiful!!!! Going to plant those plants you talked about .

[@onewithnature1WN]

Wonderful video! I will see the monarch butterflies in January 2019 and I soooo can’t wait. This video is awesome and now I’m so excited for my trip.

[@tanya_not_tania3152]

This video is reminding me of the time when I was in Pre-K and 1st grade and my teachers in both grades were freeing the butterflies.

[@alirsdi8108]

So glad i came across your vids today. What a wonderful piece. Amazing clips. Beautiful experiences.

[@agusshoumularof1835]

Whoooaaaa!! Too many beauties to handle!! When I saw lots of Mapwing butterflies in Coban Rais Waterfall, Batu, East Java (of course not as crazily much as these monarchs) my mind was blown away!! I would definitely faint from happiness if I ever see this much butterflies 😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍

[@paulawetzsteon2429]

Great video! The Monarch Butterflies have been flying over Thousand Oaks, CA for days now...what a magnificent sight!!

[@matthewnochisaki4473]

Fantastic work as always Phil! This is one of your best

[@thormaster06]

Well this is nothing short of spectacular!!

[@TheJungleDiaries]

Thank you so much! And I always appreciate a share :-)

[@CVan-hh1sg]

This is beautiful. My niece’s indian name is Memengwaqu which means butterfly in Ojibwe. 🦋

[@TheJungleDiaries]

What a beautiful name!

[@rodolfoabad8596]

Thank you so much The jungle diaries. From Philippines

[@rachelneff5837]

Amazing, phil!! Thanks for doing this!! Beautiful

[@TobyCostaRica]

What a small world. I’m looking up where to take my daughter to see butterflies and I see someone I’ve always wanted to work with (I’m a photographer in LA) at 2:16. We exchanged a few messages but never happened. I’ve been off the gram since being a dad I don’t even remember her name but glad to see her/you two having an amazing time!

[@salvadoroars]

1:12-1:16 That moment when a man knows exactly what they love and feel exactly where they belong. I'm actually jealous of your passion

[@anaibarangan4908]

I'm seeing monarch butterflies in Northwest Florida, now in May, and they're usually not here until the fall.

[@eatbeans_]

These videos inspire me to keep studying and work hard and maybe one day ill have a cool job like this. Or at least, get to travel and witness.

[@zgarcia563]

Bellas hermosas bendiciones de Dios hermosas!!!! Simple como dice el guía cuídalas ❤❤

[@amanda10171978]

Just listened to you on Ologies Podcast! Had to check out your video. Nice work! 🦋

[@jnzkngs]

This is one of the easiest environmental issues in the world to fix. Instead of paying lawyers and lobbyists ungodly sums of money to hobnob with the rich and powerful with the hope they will force others to bend to their will while those people pay their lawyers ungodly sums of money to fight it, just cut the lawyers and politicians out and spend the money to buy land and turn it into habitat. If you are willing to not be squeamish about hunting there are already organisations doing just this that would gladly welcome more habitat for their species. The funny thing about the hunting groups is that they don't pay people to force others to do what they want, they just do it themselves meaning fewer lawyers and lobbyists get second and third homes and more habitat is created without more restrictions on what people can do with their own land.

[@NatsProjectPan]

I am in awe at God's creation.. wow! I hope I can one day come visit this beautiful place!

[@lunaMeeee]

Amazing experience 😍😍😍Thanks for sharing with us ❤️

[@campbub]

Seen them up here in late September 2018..southeast Michigan area. I’m in love with the monarch butterfly 🦋 Breathtaking vid... thank you for sharing 🙏🏻

[@bisdakpinoy3428]

campbub It would be nice if you have videos on those butterflies in Michigan #MonarchButterflies#Michigan

[@ProtomanButCallMeBlues]

So they're protected in Mexico because traditionally it was believed that the Monarchs were the spirits of their dead ancestors returning to visit. Quite beautiful.

[@priame6115]

Sir I first came to know about your work through Al Jazeera. Really enjoyed your series and keep doing the great work. I was mistaken at first that I thought you were the brother of the Hillsong united Singer Joel Houston.

[@mewrongwayKOCXF]

Thank You so much Phil!! Amazing 🦋

[@saintmichaelstcapchannel9070]

Hello from ologies😊 thanks for getting me through work last night great episode👍

[@TheJungleDiaries]

Any time! More Lepidoptera goodness coming to this channel soon 🙌🏼🦋

[@sunnylight6742]

Monarch butterflies have a solar compass that is fixed to the position of the sun. These insect also use a remarkably accurate circadian clock - a biological function based on the 24 -hour day - to make corrections for the sun`s movement. Is the complex navigational system of the monarch butterfly the product of chance? Or is it evidence of an intelligent Designer?

[@georgejetson1025]

Does the monarch have its arivecan app uploaded ?

[@TheNightingGryphon]

I watched this because of the Ologies podcast with Alie Ward. Hi

[@imagineme9233]

Oh heyyyyy

[@davinawonderling9361]

Just beyond beautiful ❤️🦋🦋🦋🦋🦋🦋

[@lindsayv3039]

Outstanding! I will make the journey one day☺ Thank you so much!

[@debracavalieri3351]

As I sit waiting for my last chrysalis of the year to emerge, I just had to know what would lie ahead for him/her. How absolutely stunning! Thank you. So their offspring will know to come back to the same place?

[@alejandrarocha4367]

Amazing. I've been waiting for you to post this. Do you know what time of the year is the best time to visit the Monarchs in Michoacan? I've seem them many times in Santa Cruz,CA but never like this.

[@TheJungleDiaries]

December through end of February is best!

[@wesley2101]

i love this !!!thank for upload

[@brittanyrose1256]

I raise the 5 generation... The ones that are there.. Oooo how I would love to be there...

[@elizabethlee2743]

Here for a online school assignment loll, actually loved the video is soo pretyyy.

[@scottyscoper]

60fps. EXCELLENT!

[@hannyyyyyr]

Hey! Me gustó mucho tu vídeo P.d.hablas muy bien el español :D

[@alexisgueitsperez6149]

Great video! Great for the classroom!

[@iamboss334]

Very awesome video! Thanks

[@littlecharmsoflife2024]

amazingly beautiful!!!! thanks for sharing

[@chrissmith8280]

Absolutely Fantastic!

[@Kayleydraws18z]

super cute! i love when the girl kiss the butterfly! how romantic!

[@cherry_kuromi3]

what time of year are the butterflies in mexico?

[@azuraguillen6153]

November-March

[@cherry_kuromi3]

@@azuraguillen6153 lol i actually ended up going to the biosphere in angangueo couple of years ago in December :)

[@briceland6893]

me and my family are thinking about puting some butter fly plants in our back yard with our grand ma and she has a huge garden in her back yard ;)

[@eddiegood1776]

HOW do they know to do that? Last ones that did it have been dead 4 ur 5 generations ago and they don't have google maps. This particular generation also lives far longer than the normal life span of a monarch. HOW does that happen? Anyone.

[@philipnorris6542]

Monarchs are really cool critters, long may they continue (I can't, unfortunately, assist by panting milkweed, for one very good reason---I'm British).

[@sofialuna5270]

When I was little, I got a book from my grandma about butterflies. It wasn’t a science book, but it felt like...magic to me. The book said that the butterflies were the universe. Each year, they would travel around the whole world, and when they stopped to rest, they would sleep inside these beautiful flowers, until it was time to travel again the next year. But then, the humans came. They were hungry, so they killed. They tried to show their strengths by fighting each other to death, and where their blood touched the ground, the soil dried and died. The humans, their heads filled with ideas, built over the butterflies flowers. And the butterflies died. The ones that survived, were scared of these monsters, so some flew so high up, they became the stars we see today. Others gave their bodies to the earth, and grass would grow. But there was one human, a very old one, who had seen what humans did, and so he lived away from society. He learned about butterflies, how they traveled the Earth and gave life to where everything seemed to be lost. He learned about how butterflies drank this sweet juice, that gave them energy to keep going. So, he recreated that nectar. he spent years and years, until he finally got it. He then stood outside, with the nectar on his hands, and his hand stretched out, waiting for a butterfly to arrive. he waited years, and people came to join him and help him, but soon left. he didn’t eat nor drink anything, he just waited. And then, when his feet were lost in the snow, and his hope was so low, a butterfly came. it drank from its hands, that sweet nectar it was looking for. And then the old man said, “i was waiting for you” and the butterflies took him, flew with him around the earth, until his body could take no more, and he perished. Where he fell and his body decomposed, a flower grew. And the flowers kept extending, and the butterflies could finally stop their journey and rest in those flowers.

[@raahi2531]

Omg that’s such a beautiful and mysterious story! I love it!

[@CherokeeBird]

Spiritual perfection...

[@LERAKO]

Amazing sight!

[@girasolticaarroyo725]

Orgullosamente he protegido y liberado muchas Monarcas

[@michaelzuniga6839]

Today I just saw a some had to look up this video up thanks

[@lidiacastro485]

it is amazing butterflies are beautiful

[@astar3376]

Passing one right know in eas los Angeles Ca. 2019

[@RandaHandler]

Beautiful!

[@taslimaferdous1443]

its like heaven here!!!!!!!

[@すのーがード]

I only did this for school

[@suelee3391]

That forest looks like a circus.

[@spirosstefanakis5399]

Your Spanish it’s amazing!

[@AbdulAziz-uv2rk]

Hi

[@moistcu]

you are killing that buttchin

[@spencer6874]

Sent by cause science

[@joyful_flamingo7400]

Cool

[@RRR-kn6sy]

Amazing

[@adalidserraxd5227]

so nice dude ;0

[@kforest2745]

Yes a most interesting life they lead little boat travellers lol

[@christinebrybag3261]

that is so cool

[@nicolasgrangeonhandpanandd514]

Hello. I have a special request about this wonderful video. I sent you a message on your Facebook Messenger. Can you read it? Thanks a lot.

[@sashabrothers-nathan1485]

helo i lov butterflies

[@ObiTrev]

*THE STING OF THE MONARCH IS DEADLY!*

[@raahi2531]

Ha.

[@adalidserraxd5227]

Ps heart dont care if am in 2022

[@brittnee402]

LIFE 😊

[@givehandtokira]

C'est sylvain durif

[@asalsamarrai2741]

💚💚🦋

[@amilshamathews519]

❤️

[@yanimason3670]

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[@antopala4229]

and i am yiutuber

[@nenisyahrir4510]

📷👁👀👍🤩

[@patrickcivitelli1467]

This video is HOT GRAVY!!!!

[@raejayana7214]

Am I the only one grossed out by this ? 😖

[@raahi2531]

Yes

[@jenn5628]

Yes you are 🙄

[@gvn1jam]

Yes

[@tripsyck]

i dont understand why your channel hasnt blown up yet, ill definitely share this video with my friends

[@nathalieyates7386]

❤