🐝 Honey bee vs Monarch butterfly 🦋

Here are the honey bee and the monarch butterfly side by side.

✋ a child's hand, 5.9 in15 cm🦋 Monarch butterfly, 3.3 in9 cm long

Honey bee: no checked size yet, so it isn't drawn.

Row	🐝 Honey bee	🦋 Monarch butterfly
Top speed We don't have a checked number for the honey bee yet.	no checked number yet	9.9 to 30 mph16 to 48 km/h1
Weight We don't have a checked number for the honey bee yet.	no checked number yet	0.018 oz0.5 g2
Lives The honey bee usually lives about 4 times as long as the monarch butterfly.	0.12 to 0.5 years0.12 to 0.5 years3	0.04 to 0.1 years0.04 to 0.1 years2
Eats Both eat plants.	nectar and pollen from flowers	nectar from flowers; its caterpillars eat only milkweed
Lives in They can live in the same kind of place.	gardens, fields and orchards on every continent but Antarctica	across North America, flying to Mexico and California for the winter

Which one? Honey bee or monarch butterfly

🎂 Lives

🐝 Honey bee0.12 to 0.5 years0.12 to 0.5 years3

🦋 Monarch butterfly0.04 to 0.1 years0.04 to 0.1 years2

We don't have a checked top speed for the honey bee yet, so there is no race.

We only race. Real animals mostly avoid each other. A race is the only fair contest: who reaches the tree first, by top speed.

Getting the animals ready…

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The link carries only the two animals’ names: peabody.kids/animals/compare/honey-bee-vs-monarch-butterfly