A Breathtaking Swarm of 100 Million Butterflies | Earth's Great Seasons | BBC Earth

Deep in the forests of Mexico, millions of monarch butterflies spend their winter sheltered from the cold. Once spring arrives, it is time for them to awaken and take to the skies, in what is truly an amazing spectacle.

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Taken from 'Earth's Great Seasons' (2016).
The BBC's Natural History Archive celebrates the extraordinary nature of the four magnificent seasons on Planet Earth, and how animals and plants rise to the new challenges they bring. In each episode, we visit a different season, each with its own magical and dramatic personality, and reveal how different animal characters must find their own extraordinary ways to make it through.

Narrated by Andrew Scott.

Welcome to BBC EARTH! The world is an amazing place full of stories, beauty and natural wonder. Here you'll find 50 years worth of entertaining and thought-provoking natural history content. Dramatic, rare, and exclusive, nature doesn't get more exciting than this.

[sonptbhtx]

I remember living in michoacan mx. Walking in the daytime and being surrounded by thousands of monarchs it was majestic surreal feeling.

[cassriley]

I saw this migration years ago on the Champlain Islands on Lake Champlain Vermont. I was alone. Water, milkweed, sun. Very close to Canada. Now makes sense. Without a doubt one of the most phenomenal sights of my life. It went on for at least an hour. Just me and all those monarchs. Exquisite.❤

[lorettanericcio-bohlman]

I try to spend every birthday watching this spectacular sight on the northern coast of California among eucalyptus trees. Truly a gift.

[themufasausa]

Imagine waking up every morning and butterflies flying around you and birds chirping! Oh nature is so beautiful ❤❤❤

[debbiecreter]

BBC always has genius cinematographers! The views and scenes they capture are beyond amazing! Thank you, BBC, for all you do to make us feel like we’re experiencing these nature episodes first hand! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

[juliestewart]

I witnessed the migration when the butterflies were heading south. It was on the beach - a windy day. I saw 1 butterfly and thought how strange it was to see a butterfly at the beach. Then I saw 3, then I was surrounded by millions of butterflies! It was such a powerful event. God exists. He surrounds us with miracles every day. Praise God!

[PaulaCiemko]

NOONE DOES GORGEOUS LIKE GOD!!
ALWAYS, Paula C ❤

[skylark]

I’ve seen Monarch Butterflies migration through northern Colorado near Roosevelt National Forest. Hiking through our foothills property and down into a river valley, the trees there were covered in thousands of butterflies as they rested on the tree trunks of pine trees. Too beautiful for words.

[Kate-fn]

I was born in late 1950's, grew up just outside Grand Rapids, Michigan. This was (at that time) farmland, dirt roads, meadows, woods, streams...true childhood heaven. One late spring, a mammoth cloud of Monarchs came thru our backyard. Covering EVERYTHING. Magical. And I never saw that again.
Fast-forward decades later, when the Devos's began The Festival of Arts. I was walking thru an area where an artist was completing her exhibit and suddenly I was back in that cloud of Monarchs.
She had painstakingly recreated a swarm in a way that made my heart joyous and break at the same time. Bless her ❤🕊️

[Sunflowersarepretty]

This is the most beautiful thing I've seen so far. Living in a city and always being surrounded by anything but nature makes us forget how wonderful nature really is. ❤❤❤

[adrianadominguez]

This is my beautiful Mexico!! ❤🦋 You feel overwhelmed when you visit these protected places 🍀

[ceciLOVEtaco]

God's creativity is so amazing. It takes 3 or more generations for monarch butterfly to finish the migration.

[moran]

Only God could create something this perfect and beautiful!

[robingrüling]

I witnessed this migration in my back yard in San Antonio, Texas in 2000. My house sat on an acre surrounded by oak trees and the tree trunks were alive with monarchs. It was the most spectacular thing I’ve ever witnessed.

[lindadunlap]

Pacific Grove, California is called "The last home town" and "The home of the monarch butterfly." When their longtime sanctuary was cut down it almost cost the extinction of these beautiful insects. Saved by the people of the Monterey Peninsula!.

[heatherw.]

I once had a couple hundred monarchs roost in a pine tree in my back yard for the night during their migration. It was years ago before we all had great cameras in our phones so I wasn’t able to get a picture of it. It was so incredible that I called a friend to come see it so I would know I wasn’t imagining things! It was truly magical in the sense that I was in complete awe of those magnificent little butterflies!!! I’m so glad I looked out to see the sunset that night and saw them!

[gobind]

and my imagination could not have asked for anything more than this. This is incredible.

[CrazyEightyEights]

Please help protect creatures at risk like the Monarch butterfly. Thanks to the BBC for always inspiring videos.

[jametalboy]

An insect so delicate but yet so beautiful... Butterflies & lady birds are the most beautiful & eye catching insects...

[Gail-ivom]

The INCREDIBLE BEAUTY of Mother Nature!!! We MUST PROTECT this!!!