Shoot, I forgot...
Last year we tagged about 100 monarch butterflies we raised at the butterfly house. These tags are created and distributed by a great organization MonarchWatch... their website is www.monarchwatch.org. The migrating monarchs are tagged and if the butterfly makes it to central Mexico to overwinter, tags are collected by the locals. So, for the 2007 year, over 100,000 tags were created, just under 100,000 were distributed to the public, just over 600 were recovered in Mexico in March 2008. Of the 600, 329 were for the 2007... the balance from prior years. Of the 329 tags recovered from the 2007 year, TWO came from our butterfly house! How about that!
J
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