Student presents from butterfly migration program

Until II student Narayan King and Unit III student Kishan King gave Zoom presentations for their Doherty classmates from Cape May, New Jersey, where they were volunteering with the Monarch Migration Project. The migration project is a research and educational program focusing on the fall migration of monarch butterflies along the Atlantic coast. Kishan and Project Director Mark Garland taught the Doherty students about how the monarch butterflies cross the bay in Maine and fly all the way to Mexico. The King family has been volunteering with the program since Kishan was a baby. Kishan explained how to catch the butterflies and determine their size, sex, and weight. Narayan and a volunteer naturalist showed the students to how to tag the butterflies. The butterflies are then released to see how many survive the migration flight to Mexico.