Kat & Courtney carry baskets of butterflies
Butterflies fly free!
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Butterfly traveler taking a break
Daktari has not taken any trips lately, and his blog has been on summer vacation, too.
However, that doesn’t mean nobody from Amesbury has been traveling this summer.
On Sunday September 12th some 1200 Monarch butterflies took off from Amesbury's Woodsom Farm headed south. Their final destination – Mexico. My friend Kat and her daughter Courtney were butterfly wranglers for the event so I got some excellent blog photos of these itinerant lepidopterae and their keepers.
Monarch’s are colorful orange and black butterflies which live on common milkweed and migrate South to Mexico in the winter. No single individual can fly all the way. It takes 3 or 4 generations for them to complete the migration. The grandchildren of the butterflies we released in Amesbury will hopefully arrive at the buttefly trees in Michoacan in December or January.
The butterfly release was a fundraiser for Lucy’s Love Bus (www.LucysLoveBus.org). an organization named for Lucy Grogan. Lucy was an Amesbury elementary school student who died in 2004 from complications of a bone marrow transplant for acute myelogenous leukemia.
Friends of Lucy are now students in Amesbury High School and they are helping Lucy’s mom, Beecher, raise money so that other kids with cancer can have integrative therapies like massage, Reiki, acupuncture, etc for comfort and control of their symptoms and side effects. Most of these services are not covered by insurance and they are not free.
You can help too! As you read this blog, please take out your cell-phone and text 102459 to Pepsi (73774). That will register one vote for Lucy’s Love Bus. Text every day from now until September 30th. If Lucy’s is in the top 10 vote-getters on Oct 1, then Beecher and her teen leaders will receive a $50,000 grant from PepsiCola to help kids with cancer.
You can also vote on-line at http://www.refresheverything.com/lovebus .
In fact, you can do both – vote on-line and then text also. That’s two votes per day for Lucy and her friends! The dream lives on.
However, that doesn’t mean nobody from Amesbury has been traveling this summer.
On Sunday September 12th some 1200 Monarch butterflies took off from Amesbury's Woodsom Farm headed south. Their final destination – Mexico. My friend Kat and her daughter Courtney were butterfly wranglers for the event so I got some excellent blog photos of these itinerant lepidopterae and their keepers.
Monarch’s are colorful orange and black butterflies which live on common milkweed and migrate South to Mexico in the winter. No single individual can fly all the way. It takes 3 or 4 generations for them to complete the migration. The grandchildren of the butterflies we released in Amesbury will hopefully arrive at the buttefly trees in Michoacan in December or January.
The butterfly release was a fundraiser for Lucy’s Love Bus (www.LucysLoveBus.org). an organization named for Lucy Grogan. Lucy was an Amesbury elementary school student who died in 2004 from complications of a bone marrow transplant for acute myelogenous leukemia.
Friends of Lucy are now students in Amesbury High School and they are helping Lucy’s mom, Beecher, raise money so that other kids with cancer can have integrative therapies like massage, Reiki, acupuncture, etc for comfort and control of their symptoms and side effects. Most of these services are not covered by insurance and they are not free.
You can help too! As you read this blog, please take out your cell-phone and text 102459 to Pepsi (73774). That will register one vote for Lucy’s Love Bus. Text every day from now until September 30th. If Lucy’s is in the top 10 vote-getters on Oct 1, then Beecher and her teen leaders will receive a $50,000 grant from PepsiCola to help kids with cancer.
You can also vote on-line at http://www.refresheverything.com/lovebus .
In fact, you can do both – vote on-line and then text also. That’s two votes per day for Lucy and her friends! The dream lives on.
DAKTARI
