Butterfly Release

"JeepJeremy" (jeepjeremy) 08/12/2017 at 14:39 • Filed to: Butterflies

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My town’s garden club has an event of releasing monarch butterflies. They are trying to give the species a helping hand at reestablishing itself in our area.

I’m sorry. Not car related.

TheHondaBro > JeepJeremy 08/12/2017 at 14:45

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Those flowers n shit are turnt af

4muddyfeet - bare knuckle with an EZ30 > JeepJeremy 08/12/2017 at 14:45

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I am 100% all for this, but is that a butterfly in an envelope?! Who put it in there? How does this work?

$kaycog > JeepJeremy 08/12/2017 at 14:47

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What a wonderful thing to do! Monarchs are so beautiful!

brianbrannon > JeepJeremy 08/12/2017 at 14:50

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they don’t stay in one area though. They just stay long enough to breed and when the caterpillars turn to butterflies they continue the migration from mexico to canada 

JeepJeremy > 4muddyfeet - bare knuckle with an EZ30 08/12/2017 at 14:50

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They package them in little wax paper envelopes. 150 butterflies were released. Some were tagged in an effort to track their progress. It doesn’t harm them. I paid $7 to release a butterfly. The proceeds go to various efforts by the garden club. They have a lot going on that they put time in to.

JeepJeremy > brianbrannon 08/12/2017 at 14:54

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Oh I know they don’t stay here. I believe the effort is to create a “hub” of sorts. A home base for these butterflies. In hopes that future generations will return to this park. There’s been a noted decline of the Monarch butterfly in this area. The garden club is trying to get things going again. Milkweed plants are also being planted around town. These kind people are trying to heal a broken chain.

4muddyfeet - bare knuckle with an EZ30 > JeepJeremy 08/12/2017 at 14:54

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I was just talking to a customer last week about how few Monarchs and Red Admirals I’d seen this year. Fantastic project.

JeepJeremy > 4muddyfeet - bare knuckle with an EZ30 08/12/2017 at 14:55

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Urban sprawl, climate change, deforestation, habitat destruction, etc. All causes of population decline

Bman76 (hates WS6 hoods, is on his phone and has 4 burners now) > 4muddyfeet - bare knuckle with an EZ30 08/12/2017 at 15:00

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They actually refrigerate the butterflies. They’re basically asleep in the envelopes. As they warm up they move around until they can fly off

4muddyfeet - bare knuckle with an EZ30 > JeepJeremy 08/12/2017 at 15:05

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I happen to live and work outdoors in a fairly rural part of the UK, and the drop has been noticeable the last couple of years. Most likely I’m thinking due to climate change, our summers are much better and hotter now, enough so that it’s starting to really disturb my work. It’s a shame that it affects the wildlife as well.

4muddyfeet - bare knuckle with an EZ30 > JeepJeremy 08/12/2017 at 15:14

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*wetter

Phyrxes once again has a wagon! > JeepJeremy 08/12/2017 at 20:14

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Nice, we are putting in a monarch buttery station on my school’s campus.