JAMESTOWN – The Jamestown Audubon Center and Sanctuary’s Monarch Butterfly Festival will take place tomorrow at the Audubon’s Riverside Road location.Visitors will have an opportunity to watch the butterflies, see how they are tagged by citizen scientists, hold a caterpillar, and watch them emerge from chrysalises. The tagged butterflies will be released at 4:00 p.m. in a celebration in the butterfly garden. Almost all the monarch butterflies in the Eastern United States fly to very few special spots in the mountains of Mexico.
The 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. festival features Mexican food, crafts, a butterfly plant sale, butterfly nets to borrow, and more. A special monarch t-shirt sale will raise money for Audubon’s education programs. Monarch Butterfly Festival admission is $5 for children and Audubon members, $7 for non-members, free for ages two and under.
The Audubon Center and Sanctuary is at 1600 Riverside Road, off Route 62 between Jamestown and Warren. For more information about Audubon and all its programs, call (716) 569-2345 or visit http://jamestownaudubon.org/.
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