Flight of the Butterflies

Name: Flight of the Butterflies
Director: Mike Slee
Genre: Documentary
Released: 2012-10-01
Duration: 45 min
Rating: 6.2
Cast: Megan Follows, Gordon Pinsent, Shaun Benson, Patricia Phillips, Sofía Sisniega

Directed by Mike Slee

Documentary

20120h 45m6.2

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.