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Sample Recoveries of Commercial Monarchs Reared in California and Released in Arizona

To see a sample of recoveries of wild monarch butterflies released in Arizona Click here

All farm monarch butterflies were tagged at Desert Botanical Gardens in Phoenix as part of a monarch education conservation program. This program ended in 2012, however, recoveries from Mexico may continue for several years as the tags are found and returned.

Tag# K, female
Tagged: Desert Botanical Garden, Phoenix, AZ
Date: October 2007
Recovered: Cerro Pelón, Michoacán, Mexico

Tag# L: male
Tagged: Desert Botanical Garden, Phoenix, AZ
Date: October 2012
Recovered : El Rosario, Michoacán, Mexico
       February 2013

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