It explores environmental themes and highlights the potential effects of global warming on the Monarch butterfly.
She is noted for discovering, with her then-husband Kenneth C. Brugger, the location of the overwintering sites of the Monarch butterfly, Danaus plexippus L.
However, in Pacific Grove's version of the story, the fleeing couple turns into Monarch Butterflies (because Pacific Grove likes to be known as "Butterfly Town, USA"), as opposed to birds, to flee the evil Mandarin.
The butterfly design on her wrestling mask came from one of her trainers who said she would fly high like a Monarch butterfly.
The following year his naturalist travel journal Chasing Monarchs: Migrating with the Butterflies of Passage traced his discovery of previously unnoticed monarch migration patterns.
It is thought the beetle and its early instars derive a measure of protection from predators by incorporating toxins from the plant into their bodies, thereby becoming distasteful, much as the Monarch butterfly and its larvae do.
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Monarch Beach is named after its most prominent geological feature "Monarch Bay" aptly named as its rolling hills of Sagebrush and Manzanita were once a breeding ground for the Monarch Butterfly.