Notecard - Monarch Butterfly

This greeting card features a reproduction of my original watercolor painting of the Monarch Butterfly, a butterfly that once migrated through California by the millions. The card comes with a brown kraft envelope and is blank inside, ready for your own personal message. Monarch Butterfly Biology: Here in California, we are visited by the western population of Monarchs which live west of the Rocky Mountains. This western population overwinters in canyons and riparian areas of Southern and Inland California and the Southwest, before migrating up the Pacific coast and the Central Valley of California, to southern Canada. It will take 4 to 5 generations of summer monarchs to complete the northward migration in the summer. As they continue northward, the various species of milkweeds endemic to their geographic region begin to grow and bloom in timing with the arrival of these brightly colored migrants. As the weather becomes colder in the fall, the winter generation of Monarchs will reve