How much does a monarch butterfly weigh?
500 mg0.5 g
A monarch butterfly weighs about 500 mg (0.5 g).
Animals vary, so Tilt always names a specific, common adult: a worker bee, a house mouse, a Labrador, a bull rather than a calf. The label tells you which one. Source for this figure: Monarch Watch, Size and Mass.
How heavy is that?
- A monarch butterfly weighs about as much as 20 grains of rice.
- It takes about 2 monarch butterflies to balance a paperclip.
- It takes about 2,000 monarch butterflies to balance a liter of water.
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