here's a little higher-res shot of #3... it's a pretty amazing photo.
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unfortunately pesticides and pollution are causing monarch numbers to drop, from what i understand.

Its a beautiful nature´s phenomenom, i was there in Michoacán and the photos are nothing compares with the real experience, my father was forest guard there in 1990 and he use to take us to see the monarch, he said the real problem is the people how take the wood from the sactuary because they are exterminate the natural eviroment of the butterfly and its hard to deal with that because this suckers had weapons like AK-47 and they can kill anybody how want stoped....also is illegal take the wings of the death monarch in the floor