We don’t give animals, or any living thing for the matter, enough credit. When you think about the Monarch butterfly, what is the first thing that pops into your head? I figure it’s words like “beautiful” or “delicate” or “fragile”.
They are actually pretty strong, resilient insects. No, they aren’t off showing a honey badger they don’t take any lip. And they don’t flair up their wings to keep predators away. Do you know what they do though? They work together as a team. They migrate from Mexico to Canada and back again. When I say they are a team, I mean a generational team. It takes 4 or 5 generations to accomplish a single migration.
One butterfly takes a leg of the trip, lays eggs. These hatch very hungry caterpillars and start eating though apples, pears, plums, chocolate cake, sausage, watermelon. Okay, FINE. They eat milkweed. Then the build a cocoon, dissolve into mush and emerge as a beautiful butterfly!