The Monarch, known as the king of the butterflies, goes through four life cycles, the egg, the larvae (caterpillar), the pupa (chrysalis), and the adult butterfly. They can't survive cold weather, so they migrate in October or sooner to Mexico and Southern California.

Bugs includes general information, jokes and descriptions of the physical characteristics, habits, and natural environment of a variety of common insects. Other segments include: LeVar visits Insect world: with the assistance of an entomologist LeVar discovers the uniqueness of a wide variety of bugs and insects at Cincinnati Zoo's Insect World ; See the migration of Monarch Butterflies: take a trip to the mountains in Mexico to find out where monarch...

"An indigenous community in Mexico confronts internal divisions and illegal loggers in order to recover the ancient forest they nearly destroyed. Like the millions of monarchs that also call this forest home, their survival depends on it."--container.