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Show 3 Billion Butterflies on A 2,000 -Mile Migration Of the 125,000 species of butterflies butter-flies and moths, probably a thousand thou-sand make migratory flights from which only about 25 species return. re-turn. Among the hardiest is th painted lady (Vanessa cardui) tha one-way migrations of which hava been known to cover distances of more than 2,000 miles, to hava taken 14 days and nights of continuous con-tinuous flying, and to have been comprised of as many as 3,000, 000,000 butterflies in a single flight. |