We are being scientists for the New Zealand Monarch Butterfly Trust. We have to put tiny stickers onto the hind wings of any Monarch Butterflies that hatch or we see in our Butterfly garden.
The Trust is trying to find out what the Butterflies do over winter. The little sticker has a number on it which is different for every butterfly. We have to go onto a special website and say if it is a boy butterfly or a girl butterfly, if it flew away when we released it and if it did in what direction and we also have to tell them about the condition of the wings - whether they were new or dull.
If people see the Butterflies they can go onto a special website and tell them where and when they saw it. They look to see where it was released from and they track it to where it has been sighted. We are hoping that someone will see the butterflies that we released this morning and we will be able to see where they go over winter.
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