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Flight of the Butterflies

It takes two or three generations for the monarch butterfly to reach the Canadian breeding grounds, but it is one "supergeneration" that makes the 2,000 mile return trip back south into central Mexico. The documentary film covers Dr Fred Urquhart's interest in monarch butterflies, with perspectives of Urquhart as a child wondering where the butterflies went, his years of research and study into their life and migration, to his time decades-later as a senior scientist looking back at his investigations and discoveries about the insect's life pattern.

Top Cast

  • Megan Follows

    Megan Follows

    Narrator

  • Gordon Pinsent

    Gordon Pinsent

    Dr Fred Urquhart

  • Shaun Benson

    Shaun Benson

    Ken Brugger

  • Patricia Phillips

    Patricia Phillips

    Norah Urquhart

  • Sofía Sisniega

    Sofía Sisniega

    Chloe

  • Stephanie Sigman

    Stephanie Sigman

    Catalina Aguado

  • Jayden Greig

    Jayden Greig

    Ice cream boy

Overview

It takes two or three generations for the monarch butterfly to reach the Canadian breeding grounds, but it is one "supergeneration" that makes the 2,000 mile return trip back south into central Mexico. The documentary film covers Dr Fred Urquhart's interest in monarch butterflies, with perspectives of Urquhart as a child wondering where the butterflies went, his years of research and study into their life and migration, to his time decades-later as a senior scientist looking back at his investigations and discoveries about the insect's life pattern.

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