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What happens to butterflies and moths in the winter?

April 26, 2017butterflies happens moths winter

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What happens to butterflies and moths in the winter?

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Butterflies can survive over winter in the egg, caterpillar, chrysalis and adult stage. In Minnesota the butterfly flies away, die, or hibernate. For example the mourning cloak and the red admiral butterflies hibernate as an adult allowing them to mate very early in the spring.