Tagging Monarch Butterflies

Today some friends of ours joined us to tag some Monarch Butterflies that are migrating through our area in an effort to track their southern flight.  It was incredibly fun and educational, the highlight of my day!  Cody, Anna, Dylan, Abigail (with the help of Anna), and I all caught about eight butterflies.

I get chills when I think about their flight and our amazing God who reveals to them their path.  Here is an excerpt I read just today:

“This tiny, yet beautiful, insect (hundreds of millions of them) can perform its autumn migration flight of 3,000 miles, navigating unerringly to reach a place it has never seen, the volcanic mountains of central Mexico. Not just to the very same place to which their forefathers migrated, but each one often to the very same tree!  The location of their breeding grounds remained a mystery until 1977, and how an infant generation of butterflies finds it anew each year is remarkable.”