Samantha Goldberger shows off her engagement ring next to a Monarch butterfly soon after Jason Skipton proposed to her at El Capulin reserve, near Zitacuaro, Mexico. | AP photo
Monarch butterflies are collected in a net to be tested for a parasite that inhibits their flight, at El Capulin reserve, near Zitacuaro, Mexico. | AP photo
Researchers from the University of Georgia and University of Minnesota select Monarch butterflies to be tested for the ophryocystis elektroscirrha parasite that attaches to the butterflies and inhibits their flight. | AP photo
A painting of a Monarch butterfly is displayed in the reception area of Rancho San Cayetano, a hotel near near Zitacuaro, in the central Mexican state of Michoacan. | AP photo
Samantha Goldberger is surprised by her boyfriend Jason Skipton, as he proposes marriage, at the El Capulin reserve, near Zitacuaro, Mexico. Skipton found the love of his life 2,000 miles from home in a chance encounter. | AP photo
A University of Georgia scientist looks for signs a ophroyocystis elektroscirrha parasite in the residue of Monarch butterflies. Every year, millions of monarchs migrate from the eastern United States and Canada to central Mexico. | AP photo
A scientist collects a Monarch butterfly to be tested for the parasite that inhibits their flight, at El Capulin reserve, near Zitacuaro, Mexico. The butterflies arrive in central Mexico every year in late October and early November. | AP photo
He found the love of his life 2,000 miles from home in a chance encounter that gave him butterflies, and she moved west to be with him. So of course, Jason Skipton told me, there could be no better place to propose marriage than in …
