Fauna Flora Photography

Monarch Butterfly Danaus plexippus

Monarch is a well known butterfly famous for its migration pattern from Southern Canada to Mexico. Single individium may fly thousands of kilometers during late summer and autumn towards Mexico and return on a generational migration back to North.

How to Identify

A large size butterfly with black/orange (female) or brown/orange (male) wings. Body is black with small white spots. Around the wings there is a dark band (black or brown) with white spots.

Where and When to Spot

This butterfly species is common around Montreal and can be spotted in different parks with diversity of wild flowers.

	Spring	Summer	Fall	Winter
Parc de la Frayère	-	x	-	-

Where and when a species has been observed, identified, and recorded.

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Last updated on 2023-12-15. Written and regularly updated by Karl-Heinz Müller, Dipl. Natw. ETH, Biology. With 10 years of experience in wildlife photography, Karl-Heinz shares first-hand, on-site collected observations, photos and videos from his frequent visits to parks in the Montreal area.