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Butterfly Migration
Shri S.K.Bhatnagar was born in 1937 and brought up at Beawar, Rajasthan. After post-graduation in Botany from Ajmer, he dabbled in agricultural aesearch for a couple of years and then became a lecturer for a short period. He started his career as a civil servant in the Rajasthan Administrative Service. He joined the Indian Revenue Service in 1961 and retired in 1999 as the President of the Customs Tribunal.
Shri Bhatnagar's interests lie in the field of biology, literature and mythology. Under the pen name of Santosh Ratan, he prefers to write on scientific topics in poetic format instead of prose. He likes to draw illustrations from Indian mythology and that too in both English and Hindi. He has published 6 books so far — two in English and four bilingually, including poems on the natural wonders of the world. One of his books, Jeev Jagat Ki Aadharshila has been published in paper format while the others are online at http://santoshbhatnagar.weebly.com/ and https://www.scribd.com/user/379765454/S-K-BHATNAGAR-SANTOSH-RATAN.
BUTTERFLY MIGRATION
Record holder animals Butterflies Jeevjantuon ke karname
Monarch Champians Painted lady*
Annual long migration Erratic long migration
MONARCH
flicker -treegrow - Wc- cc
PAINTED LADY
Alvesgaspar – Wc - cc
Beautiful little Butterflies flittering merrily here and there
hopping from flower to flower sipping sweet nectar every where
little children chasing them in their charming fashion
bouncing full of joy in a heart warming phenomenon
such a pleasant scenario fills us with joy more& more
Children’s pa and grand pa of course all the more .
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Butterflies show yet another interesting phenomenon
when some of them embark upon long migration
In fact among north American butterfly population
Majestic Maripose Monarch’s Migration is unique
and one of the natures most amazing phenomenon.
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From Canada and North East U.S year after year
millions of these butterflies fly in southward direction
to Mexico’s Sierra Neveda sites ,for wintering there
on sacred Fir canopy - 3000 miles away – barely !
Oh! What a journey !and in a couple of months only;!
And when temperatures start rising and days lenthen
shift slightly northward to texas to mate, breed and lay
eggs on poisonous milkweed leaves only
Alas ! only to die, thereafter, there
leaving successor generation to start Northward journey!
Oh ! what a pity - even this generation is not destined
to reach destination but breed and die on the way
leaving the successors to reach original home far away.
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What is amazing is that next southward journey
is begun by 4th generation which had
no occasion to know Mexico or the way
and yet reaches there any way,
by the same routes, roosting on the same
trees and reaching the same Mexican sites
winters only on the very same
sacred Firs , Oh How !
And on return journey lays eggs on the same
Milk weeds in Texas!
And what is more the generations
which start Northern journey, again are those
which had no opportunity to know the way
or the destination and yet manage to reach there;
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By God ! It is true;What an unbelievable phenomenon !
A two way long journey completed by 4 generations !
And at what speed – 50-100 miles a day!
Navigating by what clues ! - Winds !
Sun compass ! magnetic field ! God alone knows !!.
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*Painted lady migrates from Africa to Europe and back
covering a distance of 14500 kms crossing a desert like Sahara
and a sea like Mediterranean either way ,although it takes
5-6 generations to complete the cycle .
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