| Temperature
and Survival
The Balance Between Warm and Cold
It
can be warm during the day at the monarch's winter home in Mexico,
but at night it's as cold as the inside of your refrigerator! Most
people are puzzled when they hear this. Why do monarchs migrate
across the continent to spend the winter in a place that is cold?
As
it happens, monarchs need cool temperatures to survive. Let's find
out why, and let's see how the monarch's forest helps to protect
them.
It's sometimes cold enough to snow at the monarch's winter home
in Mexico!

Photo
©Lincoln Brower, Sweet Briar College |