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Arkansas
Monarch Found Six Miles From Home
(More
True Stories About
Tagged Monarch Butterflies)
Maybe
you have said good-bye to a monarch lately, and sent it on its way to
Mexico. Here is a true story from students in Arkansas. Their good-bye
was not their last encounter with their monarch:
09/26/02
Monticello, AR
"My class and I released two butterflies yesterday at 3:00 p.m.
that we had caught earlier in the day.
Later, about 6:30, one of my former students found one of them at her
house which is about 6 3/4 miles from my classroom!
"She
noticed that it was tagged, wrote down the number, and called her biology
teacher to see if it was one of his. When it wasn't, then he contacted
me to see if I had tagged it. We were so excited to have one of our
butterflies spotted."
Journaling
Questions
- Assuming
the butterfly flew the entire time, how many miles per hour did the
Arkansas monarch travel? (Try the math yourself, then check our
answer.)
- What information
do you know about monarch migration from this story?
- What information
is missing? If you could talk to these students, what would you ask?
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