An adult monarch butterfly avoids being netted by a participant in Lowry Nature Center's monarch tagging class held Saturday, Aug. 27, in Carver Park Reserve in Victoria, Minn.
Monarch butterflies travel 2,000 miles to Mexico each year and migrate back to Minnesota in the spring. The tagging data is used to determine mortality during the migration and estimate the number of monarchs in the overwintering population
An adult monarch butterfly avoids being netted by a participant in Lowry Nature Center's monarch tagging class held Saturday, Aug. 27, in Carver Park Reserve in Victoria, Minn.
Monarch butterflies travel 2,000 miles to Mexico each year and migrate back to Minnesota in the spring. The tagging data is used to determine mortality during the migration and estimate the number of monarchs in the overwintering population