Butterfly+Tagging

**__Students at Onehunga Primary School Helping to Track the Migrations of the Monarch Butterfly__[[image:onehungaenviro/SAM_0002.JPG width="843" height="463"]]**
==**First the children learnt all about butterflies and what their life cycle was all about. Room 12 decided to take on the butterfly tagging project.**== ==**Room 12 already had a bug garden with swan plants so in 2012 we had a butterfly tagging workshop for the staff from Onehunga and other schools. Jacqui Knight from the Monarch Butterfly Trust hosted this. We got lots of new swan plants. iam inter help**== media type="custom" key="20000756" align="center"
 * We know that butterflies migrate overwinter, for example in America they migrate by the millions to places like forests in Mexico. Tagging has actually been happening for some time. In the 1980's here in N.Z thousands of Monarchs migrated to places like Tauranga Bay, but in 2005 there were only around 20 found.**
 * If we can track where these butterflies are going over winter and what they are doing then we can learn more about preserving their habitats.**
 * You can read lots more about this at: [|Monarch Butterfly Trust]**
 * This is how we tag our butterflies when we find them or when they hatch from our class or garden chrysalis.**