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The document describes the awakening of millions of monarch butterflies in the Sierra Madre mountains of Mexico, where they migrate to escape colder climates. Every November, these butterflies gather in a forested area, creating a stunning visual spectacle as they fill the sky. The text highlights their long migration journey from eastern Canada and the US, emphasizing the remarkable life cycle of these butterflies.

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The document describes the awakening of millions of monarch butterflies in the Sierra Madre mountains of Mexico, where they migrate to escape colder climates. Every November, these butterflies gather in a forested area, creating a stunning visual spectacle as they fill the sky. The text highlights their long migration journey from eastern Canada and the US, emphasizing the remarkable life cycle of these butterflies.

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As golden sunlight filters through the trees, slumbering butterflies begin to wake.

Amber wings
unfold and lift delicate bodies into the warm Mexican air. Gentle as wood smoke rising, butterfly
after butterfly leaves the safety of oaks and fir trees until the sky fills with millions of them.
(1) _____
These are just some of the 250 million or so monarch butterflies that spend winter in the Sierra
Madra mountains in the highlands of central Mexico. Every November, this particular patch of
mountainside forest in Michoacan State, 240 kilometres west of Mexico City, becomes a
temporary retreat for monarchs escaping the colder, faraway climes of eastern Canada and the
US.

Missing paragraphs:

A. At 3650 metres, their roosting site lines a steep, tree-filled gully. We pause by the side of it to
get a closer view. There are butterflies everywhere. From trunk bottom to the highest branch, the
trees are coated in them. Boughs bend under their weight and sway softly in the breeze.

B. Fluttering, dipping and soaring for about 5000 kilometres at about 12km/h, the butterflies span
a continent - passing over the Great Lakes, prairies, deserts, mountain ranges, cities and
motorways to get here.

C. The ones that reach the US and Canada are fourth-generation - the great-grandchildren of
those that left Mexico. These fourth-generation monarchs then fly back to Mexico in one go -
somehow finding their way here and tripling their lifespan as they do so.

D. Moving closer to the sun, their wings - a deep orange filigreed with bold black markings -
look like vast stained-glass windows and block out the blue of the sky. As the sheets of butterflies
dip and soar, the sound of a million insect wings in motion rumbles like a distant waterfall.

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