West Virginia State Butterfly
Monarch Butterfly
The Monarch Butterfly was designated West Virginia's official state butterfly on March 1, 1995. The orange and black insect dines on milkweed as a caterpillar, sips nectar from flowers as a butterfly and, at summer's end, migrates south to Mexico. The butterflies that you see in the spring are the great grandchildren of the ones that lived in Mexico during the winter.
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Courtesy of State of West Virginia
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