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Migration Celebration Students Study Butterflies at LTLT’s Tessentee Bottomland Preserve For the 5 th  year in a row, 350 5 th  & 6 th  graders from Mountain View Intermediate participated in  “Migration Ce lebration” to h elp scientists lea rn more abou t bird and butterfl y migrations. As part of this research, students catch and tag Monarchs as they migrate to their wintering grounds in Mexico. Students also catch, identify, and release other butterflies and dragonflies to help reveal the diversity of life at LTLT’s Tessentee Bottomland Preserve. Thus far, students have caught and released over 676 butterflies representing 33 different species, including 23 Monarch s. This makes a grand total of 56 butterfly species found at the Preserve! This event is led by the University of Georgia’s Coweeta Long-Term Ecological Research program. My grandson Mark came home so excited, he said it was one of the best days he ever had! Thank you for sparking an interest for science in these young minds!  Lenora Clifton Thank you for letting our school come and learn about butte rflies, birds, and insects. I love learning about nature. - Chloe I am excited to see if my butterfly makes it to Mexico . I had fun catching butterflies and learning and seeing a bunch of stuff I have never seen before. - Leann Thank you for inviting us to come on the field trip and be scientists. Most people would not let us touch animals and bugs, but you did! You even let us run in the woods and catch butterflies!  - Kyle Pipevine Swallowtail Eastern Tiger Swallowtail Checkered White This rare butterfly was caught by teacher Denise Shields in 2012! Cabbage White Clouded Sulphur Orange Sulphur Little Yellow Cloudless Sulphur Eastern-tailed Blue Red-banded Hairstreak Gray Hairstreak Gulf Fritillary Variegated Fritillary Great Spangled Fritillary Meadow Fritillary Pearl Crescent This is the most common species encountered, representing ~1/3 of all captures. Painted Lady Common Buckeye This is the second most common butterfly at Tessentee. Viceroy This is the classic Monarch “mimic.”  Red-spotted Purple Monarch (male) Over a 5 year period, students have tagged and released 23 Monarchs! Southern Pearly-eye Northern Pearly-eye Carolina Satyr Long-tailed Skipper Silver-spotted Skipper Least Skipper Fiery Skipper Sachem Peck’s Skipper Zabulon Skipper Clouded Skipper Student Aaron McAllister caught an Ocola Skipper (left) in 2014, which is a new county record! Special thanks to Jeffrey Pippen for granting us permission to use his excellent butterfly photos.

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