If you’ve ever wondered about monarch maniacs—otherwise normal people who get downright giddy at the sight of a simple black-and-orange butterfly—you may want to check out The Incredible Journey of the Butterflies tonight on NOVA. Then you will understand. Trust me.
I am tickled at the timing of this broadcast, because it was one year ago this month that I travelled to Michoacán, Mexico to see the wintering monarchs myself. It was a trip I will never, ever forget.
The show will also jazz me up for a new butterfly adventure: in a couple weeks I’ll be traveling to Costa Rica to live on a butterfly farm. (It’s a rough life, I know!) There I’ll learn how local environmentalists raise caterpillars en masse in order to stock live butterfly exhibits around the world and, by doing so, protect and conserve local butterfly habitat.
(For the record, I’m not really a maniac. Just … um … an enthusiast. Yeah. That’s it. A butterfly enthusiast. With a writing habit. And an extremely understanding family!)