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It helps to let people know in your community that YOU are tagging monarch butterflies. Here are some ideas… please add to the list in follow-up replies.
Janelle contacted her local community via Facebook:
…just wanting to make people aware of the butterfly tagging program that runs in NZ and to ask people to please report any sightings or found butterflies onto the website. Monarch butterflies are tagged with a small sticker on the day they emerge, this code is then lodged online by the tagger and then can be reported when found or seen by anyone and will give information to the butterfly trust of nz as to the wintering behaviour of the butterfly. Butterflies don’t just live for a day or week as you may have been told, in summer they live for around a month and in winter they can last the whole winter gathered together in trees for warmth. More information can be found on the website and the program is free to join if anyone is interested in helping with the monarch research. Each tag has its own code of 3 letters and 3 numbers so these all need to be entered. Also the website is on the tag (www.mb.org.nz) so you don’t have to remember it or find this post.”
Well done Janelle!
Of course that could also be shared on Neighbourly, another forum.
Chrissie writes a letter to the Editor each year – I will ask her to share that. Obviously, you would want to change the details to suit your community. And send it to any or all newspapers in your area – even radio stations.
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