The Monarch Butterfly Festival is held every year on the 4th Saturday of October. The festival is always enjoyable with many exhibits, vendors, and educational activities for the whole family.
The mission of the St. Marks NWR Monarch butterfly festival is “Create awareness and action to conserve habitat for pollinators, especially the Monarch Butterfly”
One of the great joys of attending the festival is to see the excitement of children as they visit the Monarch tagging table. At the tagging station visitors of all ages can watch a biologist demonstrate the tagging procedure. Visitors have the opportunity to touch a Monarch under the supervision of the biologist.
Here are a few images I took at the tagging table. I think you will agree that the children and their parents had a great time!
My blog on the 2015 monarch festival is found here