Trips
It has been shown that many species of moths and butterflies, like birds, can travel long distances during migration. Almost all over the world observed wandering moths and butterflies, particularly during periods of occurrence of favorable weather. Many tourists during the tour of Greece could see one thousand colored moths with a small waterfall in the Butterfly Valley on the island of Rhodes. Zlatują they are there for long distances, and their view is a great tourist attraction. In Australia, the great bulk of which take place modest hikes ubarwionych Bogong moths. For a period of hot summer to the Alps Australian zlatują these insects, which are returning in large numbers tend to fall on the plains cause various problems. In olden days, these insects are food for the Aborigines
Probably best analyzed butterfly migrations are migrations of North American monarch Danaus ple.iippus by the United States. This butterfly hibernates collectively, Florida, California and Mexico. In a limited area can be found millions of individuals who arrived in the winter from the north of the continent. In the spring butterflies move north, during this journey females lay eggs. Resulting from these eggs juveniles fly further north and may reach areas of Canada or begin migrating south. Sometimes representatives of this species can be found in Europe, as a stray wanderers, who managed to fly the Atlantic Ocean. As to their origin among entomologists is not completely compatible, as some researchers believe that individuals that seen on the European continent, the population bytującej come from the Canary Islands, and not directly from the American continent.
In Europe, we can observe the migration of many species of moths and butterflies, but not so impressive and spectacular, like hiking the American Monarch. Many species of rozsiedleniu south during the spring and summer moves further north. Sometimes we see in our gardens rusałek Southern species, zawisaków, as well as other, less glamorous, moths. Insects are not able to survive the winter in the north
and spend the winter months in southern Europe or in North Africa. With the rising temperature in spring and insects are moving in a northerly direction to reach even in late spring to Scandinavia. In the autumn, most of them killed, and some probably return to the south. If global warming occurs, it is likely these individuals will be able to survive in new areas during milder winters.