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A monarch butterfly flies to Joe Pye weed, Wednesday, Aug. 28, 2019, in Freeport, Maine. The populations of both insect species have struggled in recent years. Rapid development and climate change are escalating the rates of species loss, according to a May United Nations report. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)

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Monarch butterflies pass through Chicago on their way to Mexico

By  Lynnea Domienik
   

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Every year Northern American monarch butterflies fly 3,000 miles from Canada to Mexico, and they’re making a pit stop in Chicago!

Reset checks in with a local zoologist to learn how being an endangered species is affecting this year’s migration.

GUEST: Allen Lawrence, associate curator of entomology at the Chicago Academy of Sciences/ Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum

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