"How do you tag a butterfly? And are they ever recovered?" Carefully. "And are they ever recovered?" Yes. Here is probably more than you ever want to know about tagging butterflies:
https://monarchwatch.org/tagging/ Dan Matyola *https://tinyurl.com/DJM-Pentax-Gallery <https://tinyurl.com/DJM-Pentax-Gallery>* On Sun, Oct 4, 2020 at 5:47 AM mike wilson <[email protected]> wrote: > How do you tag a butterfly? And are they ever recovered? > > > On 03 October 2020 at 19:30 "Daniel J. Matyola" <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > > > It's pretty much the end of the season for the Monarch butterflies. I > have > > finished tagging ones that I recently released or captured, and am > > submitting my data to Monarch Watch. > > > > Here is one of the recent butterflies to emerge from its chrysalis. The > > newly emerged male is still hanging from remains of his former shell, the > > remains of which can be seen above him. He hangs like this, drying his > > wings, before they are strong enough that he can fly. > > > > http://dan-matyola.squarespace.com/danmatyolas-pesos/2020/10/3/emerging > > > > F-5 IIs, smc DA 35 mm Macro F 2.8 limited > > Comments, criticisms, and suggestions are invited and appreciated. > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
