Monarch Tagging with Polk Conservation

Saturday afternoon we went to Fort Des Moines Park to learn about the growth stages of the Monarch Butterfly. We also learned about their migration and tagging them to track their migration patterns.

We tried to find some butterflies. We saw one but it was too high to net.

Still looking.

Nothing here. We have more in our backyard with our butterfly bushes. I am going to email Polk County Conservation next year around June/July to see if we can get some tags so we can tag them in our backyard and email them the data.

All was not lost. We did learn how to tell if butterflies are boys or girls. That was pretty interesting. Now that we know that, we can tag them.