Russian explorers first to document monarch butterfly in California
200 years ago, monarchs were observed along the CA coast – will they be there two centuries from now?
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Butterfly wing image by and (c)2008 Derek Ramsey (Ram-Man), licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License 1.2
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