The People's Insect

Sidedoor

Smithsonian Institution

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🗓️ 13 May 2020

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

To look at them, you might think, “Monarch butterflies aren’t going anywhere fast.” But each year, these beauties complete one of the most remarkable migrations in the animal kingdom, soaring more than a mile high to gather on a few mountaintops in Mexico they’ve never seen before, yet somehow they all know where to find. We unlock the secrets lives of monarchs, and learn how to support them on their journey.

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0:00.0	Greetings, Siderians.
0:01.5	We're taking a quick breather
0:02.5	to finish reporting our next few episodes,
0:04.7	but we wanted to revisit a fun story
0:06.8	from earlier this year that you might have missed.
0:09.2	Because as summer slowly fades into fall,
0:11.8	monarch butterflies are about to begin
0:14.3	one of the most remarkable journeys
0:16.2	in the animal kingdom, their fall migration.
0:19.2	This story made me appreciate
0:20.6	our little black and orange friends
0:22.2	so much more than I used to.
0:24.0	All right, here's the people's insect, and we'll be back in two weeks with a brand new
0:29.0	side door. This is Side Door, a podcast from the Smithsonian with support from PRX.
0:43.8	I'm Lizzy Peabody. Years ago in a different life I was a teacher. And every spring in my classroom we hatched butterflies.
1:00.0	It's a great way to teach kids about nature, responsibility, and metamorphosis.
1:05.0	And let's be real, the caterpillars do all the work.
1:08.0	This is how it went.
1:10.0	I ordered a kid in the mail.
1:12.0	It came with a Tupperware container holding a dozen little caterpillars.
1:16.0	We put them in a terrarium with some leaves and watched them crawl around and eat.
1:20.0	After a few days they began this miraculous transformation and suddenly we had butterflies.
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