How high can a butterfly fly?

Answer 1

Dr. Bill Calvert says:

Q. What's the highest you've ever known monarchs to fly?
A. Glider pilots have reported monarchs flying as high as eleven thousand feet.

Q. Why do they fly at such high altitudes?
A. At increasingly higher altitudes wind speed increases rapidly. So if the winds are going in the right direction, it pays monarchs to thermal upward.

Q. Why don't monarchs always fly that high?
A. The height monarchs fly depends on which way the wind is blowing. When winds are from the south, monarchs fly very low. Or, if the winds are strong enough, they don't fly at all. They wait patiently in low areas with lots of trees (if available) for the winds to turn around. During these times, they mysteriously accumulate. This is when they form their gigantic roosts and people are dazzled by large curtains of hanging butterflies at night and early morning.

When the winds turn around the story is very different. During a typical morning with correct winds, monarchs will burst out of their roosts after they have warmed themselves enough to fly. Remember they are cold blooded creatures (poikilotherms in scientific lingo) and must depend on sunlight (radiation) to warm their flight muscles. Once they leave the roost they may fly to a point in full sun where they bask some more or they may search for a morning thermal, and ride the rising air upward, twisting and turning like a feather caught in the wind.

Quoted from: http://www.learner.org/jnorth/tm/monarch/HeightFallFlight.html

Answer 2

one saying goes"butterflies are god's promise of eternity",so if you're a believer in god,then the butterflies can quite possibly travel back to god across the universes

Answer 3

As High as it wants to, obvesiously. LOL, I would say around 12-18 Ft.

Answer 4

the question is how far can you throw a butter?the highier you throw the butter then that is how high the butterfly fly.

Answer 5

1064 feet after that they are subject to hypothermia and the little wings and the blood vessels start to freeze slowing the flap down which in turn increases the rate of descent.. then they are bird feed...

Answer 6

Hmm......I only know that a mosquito can fly about 13 floors high.

Answer 7

Only to 13 to 15feet

Answer 8

as high as a butterfly can be bothered really innit

Answer 9

46 feet

Answer 10

well maybe................if a butter had to fly it would fly once only instead of 'fly fly'. But i think maybe.......its depends upon the holder's strength of course........... Love ya