Beauty of the Monarch Butterfly

Pastor Gary Oser

I want to share this month another evidence of our Creator God from a book entitled, A Closer Look at the Evidence, written by Richard and Tina Kleiss. The monarch butterfly points to the Creator God and His amazing design.

Consider a few of the monarch butterfly’s unique abilities:

1. The female monarch butterfly uses six sharp needles on her forelegs to test for food’s chemical composition.

2. The caterpillar of the monarch butterfly increases weight 2,700% in just 20 days!

3. The female monarch butterfly can smell a male monarch two miles away.

4. The monarch butterfly navigates alone to a never-before-seen location over 2,000 miles away.

5. During its caterpillar stage, the monarch butterfly feeds only on the milkweed plant. Milkweed contains a powerful poison that can in most cases stop the heart of any creature that eats enough of it. The monarch caterpillar, however, can eat the milkweed and store the poison in its body, where it remains even after the caterpillar has turned into a butterfly. Although birds feed on many butterflies and moths, they avoid eating the monarch.

6. The monarch butterfly chemically reconstructs itself from a caterpillar with 6 simple eyes which can only see in black and white, a chewing mouthpiece, 16 legs and the ability to crawl. It becomes a butterfly with 2 eyes which can see in color (each with 6,000 lenses), a sucking mouthpiece, 6 legs, 4 wings and the ability to fly.

It is illogical to think that all of these things about the monarch butterfly just randomly happened by chance. Instead, they point to a Creator God who designed them so that we can enjoy their beauty. When you see a monarch butterfly late this summer, thank God He is the Creator who uniquely designed and protected them for our enjoyment.