Journey North will be having a symbolic migration of monarchs this year. Evidently they have done this in the past (this is the 14th annual symbolic migration) and I missed it, not sure how, but I did. The plan seem to be that the children create "gallery quality" butterflies and send them to Journey North in Minnesota. Journey North then send the paper butterflies to Mexico, to children who live near the monarch sanctuaries. The children in Mexico care for the paper butterflies and send them back in the spring to Journey North. Journey North then returns the paper butterflies to the children in the United States and Canada. It appears that you will not get your own butterfly back, however. There is also tracking of this process on the computer.
This sounds like a great way to connect kids to the monarch migration as well as to another country (Mexico). We will begin making our butterflies so that we can have them in Minnesota on time (postmarked by October 13).
Also, monarch related, we release 6 more butterflies today, all males.
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