Russ Miller Quotes on Butterflies (3 Quotes)

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.

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 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.