Send a Monarch to Mexico!

How to
Send Your Monarch to Mexico

Remember, migration is a risky business. Please follow these instructions very carefully so your butterflies survive their migration!!

• Butterflies should be received by October 20, 1996.

• Mail your butterflies in a large manila envelope to:.

  Journey North
  125 North First Street
  Minneapolis, Minnesota 55401 USA

• On the front of the envelope, indicate the number of butterflies enclosed.

• Most Importantly! You must enclose a large, self-addressed, stamped manila envelope for your butterflies' return trip. The postage must be sufficient to mail the butterflies back to you from the Journey North office in the U.S. (The monarchs will not be mailed from Mexico, so either U. S or Canadian postage is fine.)

More About Your Butterfly's Journey
The Journey North office will become a migration staging area for paper butterflies this fall. In late October, the butterflies will be packaged into large boxes and carried to Mexico. They will be on display all winter at the Papalote, Museo del Nino, w here hundreds of children will see them every day. When the real monarchs leave Mexico in the spring, our friends at Papalote will return the butterflies to the Journey North office. There they will be put into the envelopes you and other classrooms prov ided for their return trip. Sometime next spring, your envelope will arrive and inside you'll find the same number of butterflies you sent to Mexico--but they won't be your own. These new butterflies will tell you their stories, as you discover who made t hem and where they have travelled.

Preparing for the Journey South How to Make a Monarch

© Journey North 1996