All times eastern daylight savings time.
Monarch Butterfly Tagging
Description
Session 1: 12:00 p.m. – 1:30 p.m.
Session 2: 2:00 p.m. – 3:30 p.m.
Migrating monarch butterflies are here for only a limited time! They will be passing through our area this fall on their way to their ancestral roosts in Michoacán, Mexico. Learn about the monarch’s fascinating life cycle, habitat, and migration as you participate in our citizen-scientist program by helping to place a tag on the mitten shaped cell on the underside of the hindwing of the monarch. This activity contributes to the gathering of information about how climate trends and human encroachment affect the monarch butterfly migration patterns, overwintering sites, and populations. To make your experience more enjoyable please wear sturdy shoes and long pants. Butterfly nets are limited so if you have one please bring it. Restrooms are not available at this location. Program is weather dependent.
Who to contact
Sam Cody, sam@nicheslandtrust.org
Location
Granville Sand Barrens
How to Get There
From Lafayette/West Lafayette take South River Road, west across US 231for about 6.5 miles until you reach the sign for West Point at 700 W. Take 700 W across the Granville Bridge, then take the first road (75 S which is gravel) to the right. Go about 1.6 miles and watch on your left for a sign in the parking area.
You will pass the sign for the Roy Whistler Wildlife Area before you reach the Granville Sand Barrens parking area. It is best to go to the parking lot of NICHES’ Granville Sand Barrens and then walk back to the Roy Whistler Wildlife Area if you wish to visit both properties, as there is no parking area at Roy Whistler Wildlife Area, and trails connect the two properties.
