They will make it down to Mexico. This year, we got a cold front down from Canada toward New York, so they just fly with the wind.
The Connecticut Butterfly Association led the butterfly tagging, and we had a lot of people there. At one time, we had 40 people chasing butterflies; it was a little hectic for the monarchs having four kids chasing one butterfly. We used up our 100 tags.
We're very happy the numbers have come back though, ... The next generation will go to Texas to breed, the next generation will be in the Carolinas, and the next will come back to Connecticut.
You can tell these monarchs are migrating and won't winter over. The butterflies that winter over won't come down to the shoreline; they'll stay inland. The ones we have here come in, feed on the bushes, and continue down the coast.
Crime is one of the greatest problems that faces Lancaster city on a daily basis, and it concerns me we are considering electing someone who has made a living defending criminals that I think the folks in Lancaster want off the street.
We had a really good turnout. Last year there were hardly any monarchs, so we only tagged about 30 of them. But this year, we tagged over a hundred.
We check the sex of the butterfly, the condition of the wings, and then we put a small sticker the size of a pinky fingernail on the lower underside of their bottom wing. The tag has a phone number on it and a tag identification number, and then we let it go.
The monarchs have started early this year; two weeks before Labor Day. They'll last into the second of third week of October.
They just dropped off the trees. I talked to a gentleman who lived down there, and he said they were falling like leaves on the ground.
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