Monarch butterflies wow students  Published: Monday, September
23, 2013 at 17:38 PM.  During the summer, they took a Monarch
Teachers Workshop in Asheville, so they knew what to look for
and what to do with it when they found it.     They learned
there are not as many monarchs as there used to be. There are a
few reasons, like logging in Mexico, but in this part of the
world, it is the decline of milkweed. That is what the
butterflies lay their eggs on and what the caterpillars eat.
Pesticides kill off a lot of milkweed, and farmers want to get
rid of it because it is bad for livestock.  So the butterflies
have a better chance if someone helps out.  These butterflies
had sticker tags, about the size of a small pearl, a technique
from Monarch Watch, part of the University of Kansas.  These
tags are how researchers originally figured out the butterflies
migrate all the way to Mexico. They are the only kind of
butterfly in the world known to migrate like birds.  Of course,
it takes several generations for the s