Every September, thousands of uninvited guests descend on the home of Kansas State University’s president, Jon Wefald. They come and go with the winds, and occasionally linger there, sometimes as long as four days.
“It’s such a magical time of year,” says Mr. Wefald. “You look up and see them everywhere” — multitudes of orange-and-black monarch butterflies in the flowers and shrubs outside his house.
Mr. Wefald first noticed that his home was a stopover on the butterflies’ migration path around 1988. Since then he has watched their arrival each September on their flight from the Midwest and lower provinces of Canada to the mountains of central Mexico.
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