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Monarch butterflies focus of Wild Ones, Crossroads programming

Wild Ones-Door Peninsula Chapter and Crossroads at Big Creek hope you can help them welcome monarch butterflies as they flutter through the area. Now is when the popular orange and black insect makes its long and winding trip from Canada through the United States to Mexico. While the butterflies themselves are not endangered, their migratory nature is, according to Coggin Heeringa, who serves as the president of Wild Ones-Door Peninsula and a naturalist at Crossroads at Big Creek. At two separate events happening next month on September 6th and 11th, Heeringa says visitors will learn the importance of monarch butterflies' migration habits and how they can help them complete their long journey.

The presentation on pollinator-friendly plants will occur on September 6th at 6:30 p.m., and the monarch tagging event will take place on September 11th at 1:30 p.m. Both events will occur at Collins Learning Center on the Crossroads at Big Creek campus. The Ridges Sanctuary in Baileys Harbor will have its own Monarch butterfly event this Saturday at 10 a.m.

 

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