DULUTH, Minn. (Northern News Now) - Fall is approaching and many people are celebrating by looking up to the skies, watching monarch butterflies make their fall migration.

This migration typically occurs mid-August.

Journey North is a monarch citizen science project where people can report monarchs as they’re seeing them, in the summer or throughout migration.

They posted on social media that fall roosts, which are places monarchs gather in the evenings during migration, have been spotted here in the upper Midwest. There were even reported sightings in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan.

According to experts, this is important to the process.

“They’ll flock to those locations across the landscape where there’s a lot of flowers, and that tends to be where they find refuge at night to r

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