MILWAUKEE — The public is invited to help monarch butterflies begin their 2,000-mile migration to Mexico from the shores of Lake Michigan on Labor Day.
Villa Terrace Museum & Gardens is hosting its 7th annual monarch butterfly release and celebration. Visitors can learn about the butterflies’ life cycle and annual journey, and even take part in tagging monarchs before they’re released.
“Monarchs leave by the hundreds if not thousands in this one-week period, and they all arrive in the mountains of Angangueo on or about November 1st,” Villa Terrace volunteer and citizen scientist Shelly Culea told WTMJ. “It’s like clockwork.”…