Perhaps you would like to encourage butterflies to visit your own backyard. Go to this site and learn about gardening for butterflies. If you would like to get more information about butterfly gardening, go to this next site to see plants butterflies like. This stop takes you to another classroom to see how they raised butterflies. Let's see what they learned from their experience on raising monarch butterflies.
Monarchs are one of the few butterflies which migrate.
If you would like to watch the migration of the monarchs , you can see the tracking of monarchs. This site takes you to an article by a scientist and butterfly enthusiast. The article is a bit difficult to read. However, I would like you to read the part in the article called The Wonderful Complexity of Life. Scientists and researchers can offer a lot of background information.