An injured monarch butterfly was able to fly again after undergoing a wing transplant at a nature preserve in Long Island, New York🦋 Sweetbriar Nature Center shows the insect undergoing the procedure. | WTOL 11

WING TRANSPLANT: An injured monarch butterfly is miraculously able to fly again after undergoing a wing transplant at a nature preserve in Long Island, New York. Here, the insect can be seen undergoing the procedure, then flying away afterwards. Sweetbriar Nature Center used a wing from a deceased butterfly and carefully matched it to the broken wing. Monarch butterflies are the only known butterfly to migrate two ways for thousands of miles every year, according to the United States Department