Alert icon
We're changing our privacy policy. This stuff matters.  Learn more  Dismiss

Tagging a Monarch Butterfly

Loading...

Sign in or sign up now!
4,012
Loading...
Alert icon
Sign in or sign up now!
Alert icon

Uploaded by on Oct 3, 2006

Monarch butterflies in eastern North America migrate south to spend the winter on roosting grounds in Mexico. Volunteers place numbered tags on monarchs to help researchers learn more about their migration. Here's a video of me tagging a monarch where I live in central North Carolina (in October). If it survives its journey to Mexico, it will have traveled almost 1,600 miles. This butterfly has never been there before, yet--mysteriously--it knows the way!

Category:

Pets & Animals

Tags:

License:

Standard YouTube License

  • likes, 0 dislikes

Link to this comment:

Share to:
see all

All Comments (6)

Sign In or Sign Up now to post a comment!
  • aren't you supposed to not touch its wings? or is that just when they first come out of the crysalis?

  • Does the Monarch get to tag you and watch what your doing on a website also :D?

  • poor butter fly :(

  • i dont know anything about butterflies migration patterns but i used to have 2 monarch butterflies both who had birth defects "Lucky" died but "Spencer" got better and i started taking him outside to let him fly (fall). after a while his wings were strong enough to fly away. i miss him...oh well :) i saved a butterflies life and im not even a teenager yet! <3 Blue, the kid trying to make things better.

  • They home is in Michoacan Mexico

Loading...

0 / 00Unsaved Playlist Return to active list
    1. Your queue is empty. Add videos to your queue using this button:
      or sign in to load a different list.
    Loading...Loading...Saving...
    • Clear all videos from this list
    • Learn more