Monarch Hatching

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And there I was, for the first 27 years of my life, believing what I heard as a kid that if you touched a butterfly's wings, it would never be able to fly again and so it would die.

Very cool photos! I think I recall reading somewhere that the monarch population is threatened or something like that, so it's great to hear about a whole cloud of them.

My neighbor quickly tagged 20 Monarchs this afternoon in our front yard, it didn’t take her long. I thought we just had a few Monarchs today.....! The stickers are super sticky, you have to use a toothpick and not touch the glue on the backside. I screwed up one of her stickers.

I’m still having trouble seeing fingers on a butterfly, but it’s suppose to be ok. I saw some fly around with stickers on later in the day. It would be interesting, if some of these tagged Monarchs are later found in Mexico!

Monarch Watch Monarch Tagging Program

monarchwatch.org

@Janice - awesome photos! Thanks for posting the male ID photo, I wasn’t sure myself. Before catching them, my neighbor looked for the gender, caught them with a net, double checked and wrote it down on the list, if it was a male or a female.