What is the wingspan of a monarch butterfly?

Compared with things you know

• About 3.9 times the width of a US quarter coin (2.43 cm)
• About 1.1 times the width of a credit card (8.56 cm)
• About 40% of the width of a basketball (24 cm)

Did you know?

Each autumn, monarchs from the northeastern US and southeastern Canada fly 1,200 to 2,800 miles or more to central Mexico.

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