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TAGGING INFORMATION

 Butterflies tagged and released on Rainbow's End Farm in 2007 and 2008 have been recovered in Mexico!

Here are the recovered butterflies from 2007:

Tag Code Tagger Tag City Tag State Tag Date Report Date Report City Report State Report Country Reporter Miles
JBH140 Rainbows End Farm Pawling NY 09/16/07 02/28/09 Cerro Pelon   MX Elidio Moreno  
JBH124 Rainbows End Farm Pawling NY 09/16/07 03/06/08 Cerro Pelon   MX Melquieles Moreno  

From 2008:

Tag Code Tagger Tag City Tag State Tag Date Report Date Report City Report State Report Country Reporter Miles
LBX332 Rainbows End Farm Pawling NY 09/21/08 03/01/09 Sierra Chincua   MX Javier Martinez Martinez  
LBX567 Rainbows End Farm Pawling NY 09/24/08 10/03/08 Pottstown PA US Walter Kochel  

We are still waiting for data from 2009 & 2010 releases.

On Labor Day we released our tagged Monarch butterflies to begin their long journey to Mexico. By November, the monarchs have begun to arrive at their overwintering sites in Mexico! 

Monarch Watch, at the University of Kansas, now has our data and the monumental task of entering it all into their data banks. After our data is entered, information regarding recovery of the tagged & released monarchs takes quite a while as the majority of recovered tags are obtained in Mexico early each year.

It will take some time and we have to be patient while we wait for any news of our tagged butterflies.

When we receive any news of recoveries, we will enter it into these pages and will contact the tag holder directly. Please use the USEFUL LINKS to follow their journey. They are very exciting and informative sites!

We wish the butterflies a SAFE JOURNEY! Hopefully we will collect some great information from our efforts.

Have a great winter!
- Regards from the du Plessis family of Rainbow's End Farm