You may have been dazzled by the number of monarchs fluttering through Quebec in recent weeks - except, they're not monarchs.
They're painted lady butterflies, also known as papillons belle-dame or cosmopolitans, and experts tell the Journal de Montreal that this year's migration is unprecedented.
The painted ladies are en route to warmer places in the south and the experts believe they're more numerous this year because of the nice weather during the migration north last spring.
More of them made it to the area around Hudson's Bay and they were able to reproduce in large numbers.
Usually, people don't see the migrating butterflies because they travel hundreds of meters in the air but at the moment, prevailing winds are keeping them close to the ground.
Painted ladies resemble monarchs but are smaller and their bodies are brown, not black. .