Flight of the Butterflies 2012

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Documentary

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.

Release Date 2012-10-01
Runtime 45m
Directors Mike Slee, Simon De Glanville
Producers Jonathan Barker, Jonathan Barker, Maria Elena Gutierrez Santoscoy, Myles Connolly, Joanna Baldwin-Mallory, Rafael Cuervo, Kym Crepin, Mike Slee, Wendy MacKeigan
Writers Mike Slee, Wendy MacKeigan