A Monarch Butterfly or simply called a Monarch, is a only one type of milkweed butterfly in the Nymphalidae family. The Monarch Butterfly has orange wings, which is a big part of protection, because when other animals see the dangerous orange, they know to stay away for this is a sign of poison.

A beautiful monarch butterfly will approach a nearby swan plant and lay an egg on one of the leaves. In approximately 5 to 10 days to hatch into a monarch caterpillar. As soon as the egg hatches into a caterpillar it will start eating the leaves of the swan plant until it is big enough to form a chrysalis. When the caterpillar is ready to become a chrysalis it will climb one of the branches of the swan plant and hang off the branch upside down. Then the caterpillar will start to cocoon itself, after ten to fourteen days the cocoon will start to break. Emerging from the chrysalis will be a beautiful butterfly. The young butterfly will not be able to fly yet because their wings are wet from the chrysalis,so they will dry their wings in the sun. Most monarch butterflies will take a big journey to Mexico, but it depends on we're they live. If they do go on the journey to Mexico then they will lay their eggs they're and the new batch of monarch butterflies will make the journey back home, if the monarch butterfly's do not make the journey then it is still a similar process. This is how the monarch life cycle goes.