Last weekend we went to Hitchcock Nature Center to participate in their butterfly tagging event. It was pretty fun. We were tagging monarch butterflies for research. The apparently migrate to Mexico for the winter and this helps them know where the butterflies came from.
Tagging involves catching the butterfly, determining it's sex, and putting on a little tag (a round sticker with numbers and stuff on it) on the outside of it's wing, record the info, and then let go. We caught one butterfly in a last ditch effort on our way to the lodge. Dexter loved it!
When we let go of the butterfly, we had to say Adios! to send it on its way
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