Date: 09/20/2016

Number: 1

As of Sept 20 we have reared and freed 8-9 Monarch butterflies. The latest one was a huge success. In the 5th grade the children were watching an about-to-open chrysalis when it fell off the aquarium lid onto the table top. The teacher, not me, helped kids google what to do. Mean while a young citizen scientist girl in the class who has been taking some tanks home on the weekends (so they don't open at school when no one is here) came up with the idea to cut a hole in a Baggie just big enough to hold the chrysalis without slipping through. Then that Baggie was taped to the lid and soft paper towels put under it to soften the fall if it slipped through. Then they waited and the butterfly came out! And then they released it outside and it flew away!

Tulsa, OK

Latitude: 36 Longitude: -95.9

Observed by: Jan E
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