Butterflies may be free to fly, but 10-year-old Garret DelBeni’s Monarch butterfly didn’t want to go far on Tuesday.
It flew from the fifth grade student’s hand to some nearby flowers for a snack.
That butterfly, bearing a tag that will help identify it when it reaches its destination some 3,000 miles away in Mexico, was part of a project conducted by the students in Sharon Ernst’s science classes at East Amwell Township School.
The students get to study the life cycle and ecosystem of the butterfly hands-on. Ernst’s classes see monarchs grow from caterpillars, watch them form chrysalises and emerge as butterflies.